[xubuntu-users] mousepad wiped out file content when font change tried

[Juan R. de Silva]

> I know little about it, but until somebody gives you more information,
> if I were you I wouldn't write anything to that disk.

The disk is reported perfectly wealthy by smartmontools. I have a 
multiboot with Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian Wheezy on this laptop. In neither 
of them anything similar has ever happened.

> I have a script called "bupsky" that backs up the current tree. I run it
> about every hour, plus every time I hit a milestone, when I'm hot on a
> project. Here it is:
> 
> =================================================
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> buptrunk=/scratch/bup curdir=$(pwd | sed -e "s/.*\///")
> bupdir=$buptrunk/$curdir now=$(date +%Y%m%d_%H_%M_%S)
> src=../$curdir dst=$bupdir/${curdir}_$now
> 
> if test ! -d $bupdir; then
> 	mkdir $bupdir
> fi
> 
> cp -Rp $src $dst
> 
> echo backup written to $dst
> =================================================
> 
> Since I started using bupsky, I never lose more than a half hour on a
> hot project.

Thanks for the script. After the first experience of the kind I think I'd 
better give it a try.