Script rm -rf'ed my entire home dir...

[CactusBoy3]

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What happened

my whole home dir is gone... this script did the exact opposite of what it was supposed to

What did you expect to happen

i expected it to not delete my files

How to reproduce

idk

Additional information

No response

[Staubgeborener]

I'm curious, please show me the output/content of your .bash_history file so we can see what you actually did in your shell.

The only lines which are running a rm -rf is this and this one, but this only deleted the content inside the $backup_path variable which is $HOME/config_backup, so my first thought: you changed this line. Also it's weird that you show the content of your /home/user/ethan52 which has a .git folder - is this one the .git folder of Klipper-Backup or why do you have a .git folder in your home directory?

I would simply love to know how you tried to install Klipper-Backup. I'm just trying to understand it with the information you provided: there is a .git folder and a Readme.md file in your home directory. Maybe those belongs to Klipper-Backup, maybe not. Let's assume yes. Klipper-Backup deletes the config_backup after running the script except .git and Readme.md - that would makes sense, because those are the only left files from the script which we can see in your screenshot. But those files belongs in a separate config_backup folder and not in your home directory. Klipper-Backup does this automatically. So it looks like you just drag and drop this code onto your sd card, didn't read the docs at all and also edit line 22. Is this true? Again I would love to see this .bash_history file.

[CactusBoy3]

backup_folder="config_backup" backup_path="$HOME/$backup_folder"

was changed to

backup_folder="ender5_data" backup_path="$HOME/$ender5_data"

my thinking was that it would change the backup directory. evidently it did not. :/

contents of .bash_history

##running command
ls
~/klipper-backup/script.sh
~/klipper-backup/install.sh
ls
##realising what i had done
cd ~/
ls
nano readme.md
ls
cd media
ls
cd plex
sudo shutdown now

I had downloaded the script using the curl command and then executed the script with the other command. I gave it all the requested info and it uploaded files to GitHub It did not upload any config files tho. I looked around the wiki but somehow missed the "Paths" section. I leave it for a while and then come back to it. I edited the script.sh as I thought that was the correct way to change the path. I run the script then boom. Its my fault really :/. The .git folder and Readme.md are from the script.

[Staubgeborener]

backup_folder="config_backup" backup_path="$HOME/$backup_folder"

was changed to

backup_folder="ender5_data" backup_path="$HOME/$ender5_data"

And this is the reason why your files are gone.

The backup path was $HOME/$ender5_data (which is /home/user/ender5_data). After running the script, it nukes the content out of the $backup_folder which was sadly your home directory. Sorry to say that, but the files are gone because of this edit.

[CactusBoy3]

:/ prob should have run it in a vm or something first rather on the pi with all my files on. i really should make backups of important files. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_wTvstWcw

[Tylerjet]

backup_folder="config_backup" backup_path="$HOME/$backup_folder"

was changed to

backup_folder="ender5_data" backup_path="$HOME/$ender5_data"

Also just to add here, the reason why your home directory was deleted was due to your change of the second line. if you would have left it as $HOME/$backup_folder then it would have set the path as $HOME/ender5_data.

But you changed it to be $ender5_data, which bash sees as a variable, but that variables data does not exist and thus is empty. This made your backup_path be seen by bash as just $HOME/. Since $ender5_data is a empty variable.