I have a backup that is at least 2 days old offsite at a friend’s house. It would be a bit of a pain to go retrieve it, but I could do that.
Short of that, I have 4000+ files in lost+found with names like #1094827. What can I do with those? I tried running “file” on the first 50 via xargs and they mostly at least purport to be some sort of intact file. How can I determine what they are? Please don’t suggest that I manually use “file” and then an appropriate program to examine each one in turn > On Sep 5, 2023, at 1:17 PM, Andreas Kähäri <andreas.kah...@abc.se> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:54:58AM -0400, John Holland wrote: >> I just had a kernel panic when reloading a firefox tab pointed at facebook. >> After restarting, all the filesystems had errors but /home was particularly >> bad and caused the boot to stop and prompt if I wanted to enter a root >> shell. >> >> >> I eventually got fsck to mark the /home filesystem clean but it found >4000 >> lost files that it moved to lost&found. I am not so experienced with this, >> running "file" on a few of them shows that they may be intact files but they >> have numeric names now. > [cut] > > > A regular external backup would have saved your data no matter what > filesystem you might have been using. There are a few different backup > solutions available in the ports tree. I use restic, both on OpenBSD > and macOS. > > > -- > Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri > SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM > Uppsala University, Sweden > > . >
