Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:32:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Hormann <ghormann@ns.kconline.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jim Riffle <rif@wawasee.read.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: DUMP: missing files. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970311103142.2548E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970311115449.8556A-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu>
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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
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