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In reply to a post by pmb00cs:

I am fortunate in that I have been able to learn from the mistakes of others, and have yet to lose any vital data personally. (Even after the odd ill conceived "rm -rf *" here and there)

Sounds familiar

Many years ago we attempted to delete a series of Unix files with embedded spaces in them. "rm -rf * *.*" (with a space between the first and second asterisk) wasnt the worlds best move!

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The win 7 system image system was a godsend.

When the 64bit version of bitdefender impolded and bricked my PC a quick restore of the latest image (which was only a week old) brought it all back.

And as I store all my email on my mail server nothing at all was lost apart from a few updates which were quickly reinstalled.

The thing is no matter what you use you must impliment a backup plan and stick to it.

I take a windows image every 2-4 weeks and every 2 months all my data is backed up onto 2 independant 2TB drives.

So make a backup plan and stick with it.

Post deleted by MrSaffron