Hello Dennis, Monday, February 19, 2007, 12:20:49 AM, you wrote:
>> 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. DC> This is one ( of many ) reasons why ZFS just rocks. A snapshot would have DC> saved you. I don't consider a snapshot to be an actual backup however. I DC> define a backup as something that you can actually restore to bare metal DC> when your entire datacenter has vanished into a blackhole. That means a DC> tape generally. DC> In the Lotus Notes/Domino world there is a very nice feature where you can DC> have soft-deletions. Essentially you can delete a record from a database DC> and then still do a recovery if needed within a given retention time period. DC> Perhaps a soft-deletion feature to ZFS would be nice. It would allow a DC> sysadmin or maybe even a user to delete something and then come back later, DC> check a deletion log and possibly just unrm the file. Something similar was proposed here before and IIRC someone even has a working implementation. I don't know what happened to it. Anyone? That someone? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
