Restoring a backup

If this has happened to you, you're able to restore your backups by copying files from redbricks backups.

Causes of needing to restore backups

Deleting all your files in a directory

rm * //Very bad, will delete all files from current folder

Overwriting a file.

If you're using vim, it will prompt you that you are overwriting a file if you didn't open the file for editing in the first place.
It tells you to add a ! to the write command to overwrite the file. Don't do this unless you're sure of what you're doing.

Howto restore from a backup

ssh carbon
cd /backup/webtree/webtree[.{1-6}]/{a-z}/<username>
cp filename ~/public_html/.    OR cp -R * ~/public_html/.
exit

Example of restoring a file

ssh carbon
cd /backup/webtree/webtree.1/d/drag0n
cp index.html ~/public_html/.
exit

This will copy drag0ns (ie. me) index.html from a backup from 2 days ago into drag0ns public_html folder.