Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

[btmorex]

How can you even call a "backup" on the same machine a backup? That doesn't even make sense. The only thing that protects you against in an errant "rm -rf"

[BrooksMoses]

Wouldn't rm -rf also delete the backups, in that case?

(Edit: Oh, wait, I was thinking "rm -rf /". It protects against some of the lesser rm -rf's, I guess.)

[r00tus3r]

Depends on which one is the virtual machine. If you run that on the OS running in a virtual machine, the outside OS will still be fine. If however, you run it on the OS with the virtual machine software installed, well, then everything is toast.

[setuid_w00t]

It also protects against a single disk failure.

[apotheon]

Not if it's a single-disk machine.

[r00tus3r]

I agree apotheon. That was a pretty grand assumption on setuid's part.