On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:36:16AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> So, this is again an advice that should be obvious for anyone, bold
> enough to delete parts of the file system, that can result in system
> breakage.
>
> There is a betwitched command, tar, that can be used to create
> archives of any directory. So, the obvious action to me is, make a
> tar.gz archive before deleting any system directory. That way, you
> will be empowered with recovery in the ill fated event of breakage. In
> the event of boot failure you can use the backup (.tar.gz) file to
> repair the damage restoring bootability.

Assuming, of course, that you have some other way of booting the
machine so you can still run commands to restore the files.

-- hendrik