A RAID array may save your data from drive failure, but it won’t protect it from brain farts.
heide:/media/video/anime$ mkdir tmp ; cd tmp
heide:/media/video/anime/tmp$ cp ../bagi_part*
heide:/media/video/anime/tmp$ ls
heide:/media/video/anime/tmp$Wait, what did I just do…
I just copied the part 1 file over top of the part 2 file, that’s what… Gotta be careful with those wildcard expansions, especially when ‘cp’ and ‘mv’ are involved. (In this case I forgot the ‘.’ parameter at the end to tell it to copy the files here instead of over each other.)
Fortunately I hadn’t wiped the Linux partition on the old system yet and could recopy it back from there. Laziness pays off sometimes…
Only got two things to say:
1.) Been there, done that, slapped forehead until bald.
2.) How many times have you laughed at me for doing that? :-)