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Originally Posted by sydmalicious
Do you have any nightmarish scenarios you've had to deal with, overcome, or recover from?
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Two days ago I made my own nightmare situation. Luckily it was only a brief nightmare. But when you realize you just did something incredibly stupid, that initial stab of panic goes deep.
After over 45 years of administering and using Unix and Linux computers, I finally got around to deleting a partition table that I didn't mean to delete. Of course it was my boot drive, making things even more fun!
Even having been a sysadmin for the majority of my life, I still did have a brief panic attack once I realized what I had done. Thoughts of a bare metal recovery from backups were dancing through my head. But I stopped doing everything, didn't look at the computer, didn't touch the keyboard, and went upstairs to make myself a cup of coffee. By the time I had done that my brain had cleared, the panic had subsided, and I knew just what I had to do. I had my partition table back in under two minutes and the computer never realized it was knocking on death's door.
But that initial scare was ... a nightmare!