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?

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