> if you are simply left with a directory that's been > deleted. maybe something else is going on?
Perhaps. The harddisk is a FreeAgent Seagate, connected via USB. It used to go into sleep mode every 15 minutes and I would often have to restart cwfs - this is probably cause for a lot of damage. It's no longer an issue, as I recently got access to a Windows computer with the proper software to disable this. > the cache is mostly orthoganal to this. except > that between dumps, modifications are in the cache, > though they have actually worm addresses. this is > why some blocks are usually lost on each dump. > since the maximum allocated address on the worm > is never adjusted down to account for deletions. > > so the only way to move a file that only exists in > the dump to the active fs is to copy it. Makes sense. But does this also mean that when time comes for a dump, the data will be duplicated in the WORM? Viz., I'll have two copies of the same file, in different dumps? Thanks, ak
