F15: Erased rpm database!! What now?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 26.09.2011 15:19, schrieb Dave Ihnat:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:01:16PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> This is of no use whatsoever in this situation, it doesn't help 
>> reconstructing the accidentally erased rpmdb contents.
>> <<suggestions elided>>
> 
> Hmm...single point of failure...Bad Thing(TM).
> 
> If this can cause a system to become unusable to the point of requiring
> reinstallation, perhaps its design should be rethought; maybe a shadow
> copy, or something similar.  (A consideration that perhaps should be
> given to any single point-of-failure data element.)

you can not prepare all against a single point of failure
what would be your solution for "rm -rf /etc/"?

the prevention for user-mistakes is known as backup and everything
where no backups are existing can not be important


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