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Cleanup without fresh install
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@ransomwarelettuce Restore your backup?
If it came preconfigured with your IT account, then asked them to install this image again. And ask them, how to handle this sort of situation in the future.
Yeah I think it will have to come to that, I am usually my own IT guy and did not want to bother our DevOps/IT guy which is loaded with other more important stuff.
But it will have to come to that once it becomes somewhat unbearable.
Will ask him for a backup policy though now that you point that out.
I my personal machine I got a btrfs volume just for that I could replicate that.