DRAT . . . Learning curve just got ugly

[Michael]

Argh that sounds bad. Think I'll stick to rsync. ;)

The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org/projects/

On 23 Jun 2002, Bradley Miller wrote:

> Ok, so I'm playing with Mandrake 8.2 and loving it.  I decide to explore
> a bit more and I see this DrakSync.  It sounded cool -- sync up files
> between web site and PC or laptop.  I thought I'd take a chance and see
> how it work.  I decide to do this on a LARGE account that I have . . .
> they upload files all the time to the site so I only have program files
> locally, images are on the server.  I do the setup Wizard and make a
> directory to back the info up on.  I'm doing other stuff and I'm noting
> that the directory is not filling up at all.  It looks like things are
> hung up but I still something going on.  Finally I see a prompt saying
> something about an error, but at this point I realize that its still not
> putting files onto my harddrive.  It turns out that DrakSync is making
> my WEBSITE folder EMPTY!!!!   CRAP.
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> In a nutshell, I caught it before it was MAJOR damage, but enough had
> been done.  I restored my web ads directory and a magazine directory,
> but I'll have to reload the ads for magazine area.  Ugh.
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> This is one of those things where someone needs to do a usability study
> on Linux programs.  Who would have intelligently thought that I would
> want to EMPTY the file folder on my web server?  The wizard never asked
> which way I wanted to go.  Had I not used the wizard I would have
> realized that's what it would do . . .
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