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[ironicbadger]

Story 1 is not so much about data loss but, still funny to me. The plan while converting all my media from physical media to digital was to:
A) do conversion on my desktop PC
B) move the files to an external hard drive
C) move the external hard drive to the media server and drop them in
What actually happenedL
A) Conversions done on desktop pc ...check
B) move files to external hard drive ...check
C) learn about a better way to transfer files directly over the network with rsync ...check
D) fumble through the options on rsync and somehow make a weird russian nesting doll of duplicates of THE ENTIRE DIRECTORY STRUCTURE in triplicate ..check
E) wonder why ~11TB of drivespace seems so full when you only started with less than 5TB of files to transfer.

Story 2 is an actual data loss that still make me a little sad, but a little more critical of my commanline-fu. I simply wanted to us mv to drop all the .mpg files from one directory to another. simple right
mv /source/path/.mpg /destination
but what if instead ...
mv /source/path/.mpg destination
I am now the proud owner of a file named destination that used to be 237GB of mpg.