There was an email posted to the PLUG mailing lists recently about a user that had run rm -rf / and bricked their laptop. It was a fascinating story and I lost a good hour or so reading through that thread, the GitHub issues and responses etc...

The exact specifics might …

There is an old saying that "there are two types of sysadmins, those that do make backups and those that will make backups". Hopefully there are not too many of the second group. But backing up the data is only part of the picture, you also need to think about …