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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: DUMP: missing files.
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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Greg Hormann wrote:

> This weekend, while trying to convert a 100M dos partition to swap space
> on a -current (before Lite/2) machine using the sysinstall method, I
> destroyed both my / and /usr partitions.  No problem!  I had just dumped /
> and /usr to a tape only 3 hours ago. (Or so I though.)
> 
> After using "restore" to reconstruction the file system, I noticed a few
> files were missing.  Notably, some libraries (and Linux libraries also),
> the ".pinerc"'s of users who we probably reading their mail at the time,
> my bookmark.htm file, etc. 

Hm, this sounds like a permissions problem.  Who do you run the dump
process as?

> My question: what happened to those files?  After realizing the problem, I
> check the tape again.  I looked in the my home director for .pinerc on the
> tape, and it was listed there, but when I tried to extract it, it said
> "/home/ghormann/.pinerc" is not on the tape.  Does dump not back up open
> files?  I didn't write to .pinerc (or the libs), during that time, but I
> did have pine open.

What about the local file?  Can restore write to it?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major