From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 08:35:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA23926 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from wawasee.read.indiana.edu (wawasee.read.indiana.edu [149.159.108.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA23914 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:35:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ghormann@localhost) by wawasee.read.indiana.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA14374; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:34:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:34:33 -0500 (EST) From: Gregory James Hormann To: Doug White cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DUMP: missing files. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Greg Hormann wrote: > > 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. No, it wasn't a permissions problem because the users home directors (mode 700) were mostly restored. It is just a few select files. > > > 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? I am afraid I don't understand what you mean by "the local file". Thanks for you help. Greg.