Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:49:31 -0500 From: Jerry Dunham <dunham@dunham.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advanced File System on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000917174931.P27592@rider.dunham.org> In-Reply-To: <20000918074748.F67912@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:47:48AM %2B0930 References: <121596976@toto.iv> <14789.649.22564.273240@guru.mired.org> <20000918074748.F67912@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Mon, 18 September 2000 at 7:47:48 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 September 2000 at 12:42:33 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 September 2000 at 11:37:37 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> >>
> >> Years ago I ran Interactive UNIX System V.3, and I installed the
> >> Norton Utilities for System V (yes, there was such a thing), which
> >> included undelete. I don't think I ever used it. I also think that
> >> the main thing stopping an implementation is that the people who could
> >> implement it don't want it.
> >
> > Actually, there is a time when the people who could implement it do
> > want it. That's when they are dealing with lots of newbies, and don't
> > want to be bothered with requests to recover accidently deleted files
> > from backups.
>
> I think you're looking at the "sysadmin for a large UNIX installation"
> scenario here. Nowadays it's more likely to be "I just deleted all my
> files, how do I get them back?" question, to which the hardened hacker
> replies "read them in from last night's backup". That's easier than
> writing complicated software.
While I've managed to delete something I should have had on a backup
tape, what I more commonly seem to kill off is something I just wrote
twenty minutes earlier. I don't know of any backup scheme that helps
in this case. It sure would be nice for the OS to protect me from my
own stupidity at such times.
> > Doing the script for rm solves that problem, and is much easier.
>
> Well, why don't you do it, then?
If you do, please post it here. I'd like to consider trying it.
Thanks for the enlightenment.
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