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		profmonocle on March 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting... That's almost exactly how I blew up a test server once. (rsync --delete in place of rm) Taught me to be extremely careful when dealing with absolute directory paths.

marcosdumay on March 24, 2015 [–]

Oh man... Rsync deserves extreme caution even compared with other bash commands. It's so easy to erase everything and copy terabytes again.

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