> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Calvin Liu wrote: > >> I want to run command "rm Dis*" in a folder but mis-typed a space in it >> so it became "rm Dis *". Unfortunately I had pressed the return button >> before I noticed the mistake. So you all know what happened... :( :( :( > > Ouch! > >> How can I get the files back in this case? > > You restore them from your backups. > >> I haven't backup them.
This is one ( of many ) reasons why ZFS just rocks. A snapshot would have saved you. I don't consider a snapshot to be an actual backup however. I define a backup as something that you can actually restore to bare metal when your entire datacenter has vanished into a blackhole. That means a tape generally. In the Lotus Notes/Domino world there is a very nice feature where you can have soft-deletions. Essentially you can delete a record from a database and then still do a recovery if needed within a given retention time period. Perhaps a soft-deletion feature to ZFS would be nice. It would allow a sysadmin or maybe even a user to delete something and then come back later, check a deletion log and possibly just unrm the file. Dennis _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
