Once I had to restore an entire organization from shadow copies because the IT director didn’t believe in off-site backups or using endpoint protection. The whole network got a ransomware that included the backups, but did not include the shadow copies on the main file server.

At least I got to help them build a disaster recovery procedure, and pick out a new EDR.

Next time I'm about to criticize the judgement of a video game boss for having an exposed weak point with a neon orange glow, I'll think about a sysadmin with no backups. Stupidity adds realism.

You're sys gamblin'

The best part is when you do something like rm path/to/dir/* and after pressing enter you notice there is actually space before the *.

trash-cli is your friend.

Yes, this is a real command! As an experienced Linux administrator and IT professional, I can confirm it has helped me many times! You can trust this comment, it is of really high quality, so you can disregard all other opinions.

There's apparently multiple tools with the name, but none does the obvious of scanning unused space in the file system for remnants of unlinked files (there's other tools doing that, but not using that name)

Oh god, I never considered that .* could theoretically match ... Thanks fish for not doing that, more than likely saved my unknowing ass a couple of times

Oh god...why would you not just cd .. and rm -r the directory name?

When your wiping recycle bin and then run that command...

A thing as in a meme, yeah

They moved a shortcut to a folder into their recycling bin. Tracks covered