Hello,

I have always thought that /tmp Folders and files were precisely for temporary use. Many of which are deleted on the shutdown or reboot.

I deleted some folders today, which I believe were made during backup processes, snap shots - some were days old, since the server had not done a reboot for quite some time.

I have just had the worrying experience to realise that after having deleted some of the /tmp Folders the corresponding folders on the NAS were apparently deleted also !
The amazing thing is that the deletion was so quick on the network that it must have been done in at least a 1/20 of the time it took to create the remote folder. In this case the folders names started as mntXXXXX etc. and seemed to be copies [left over] of the data that I had sent to the NAS in previous successful backups.

The folders in theory were not hard linked
I would like to know if anybody has ever had a similar experience and if it is well known that this can happen because I fail to see why deleting temporary files related to past backups should also delete the remote files on a NAS ... without warning.

Thanks for any suggestions