What would cause the home dir to copy itself into itself…? It’s not the first time it happened either. Once was on Debian and this one was on MX Linux. The only thing I can think of was a screwed backup this time but…
What would cause the home dir to copy itself into itself…? It’s not the first time it happened either. Once was on Debian and this one was on MX Linux. The only thing I can think of was a screwed backup this time but…
I’ve had that happen before when an
rsynccommand for uploading backups was doing shenanigans. I think, it choked on a very large folder, but I just excluded that folder and then it was fine.I like to backup Home separate from the system on another partition (for speed) then I copy it to an external drive. I use Lucky Backup which runs on rsync if memory serves me right.
Hmm, in my case, it was certainly part of the problem that I tried to back up directly to an SMB share. It wouldn’t complete even after hours, and my best guess is that it somehow created the copy in/of the home-directory when the connection failed.