From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 13 12:47:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA19175 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:47:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA19157 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02507; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:45:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:45:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bill Beavers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restoring lost files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Bill Beavers wrote: > I recently had a crash, and had to install a new harddrive, so > consequently, I just re-installed my 2.1.7 stuff all over again. I > backed up my /var/home directory as well as /etc. My question is this... > If I restore the tarred files I made for /home and /etc, I know I will > get the home directories and group pid and uid's back, but what about > mail? I didn't backup /var/mail. Will that cause me problems. As I > have about 50 users on this machine, I don't want to create confusion, so > would I be better off to just add all users again so that the accounts > are created with the proper mail files, or will restoring /var/home fix > that for me? You can get back what you have backed up. If you didn't back up /var/mail, then it's history. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major