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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 Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Gregory James 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.

Odd...

> > 
> > > 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".

The currently existing file on disk.

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