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Article #59804Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux?
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 00:00
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albert@krakatoa.ccs.neu.edu (Albert Cahalan) > I have important source code in ~/fe, and an old backup as ~/fe.tgz. > It has been some time since I made a backup, and I plan to make > some wild changes I might need to back out - time for a backup! > OK, here goes: 'tar zxf fe.tgz fe'. (the 'x' should be 'c') > One damn little typo, and instantly the latest code is replaced > with very old code. Backups? I thought I was making one! You're complaining that tar does something less well than tar might. That is stupid, because even fixed, tar wouldn't do a good job. Don't gripe about a bad solution, solve your problem: Install RCS. Of course there are valid reasons for wanting undelete, but this is not one of them. --Arnt (hits c-x c-q many times a day)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5392,355ac0499e9cf894 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5392,public X-Google-Thread: 10c696,355ac0499e9cf894 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c696,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,355ac0499e9cf894 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,355ac0499e9cf894 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> Subject: Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux? Date: 1995/11/25 Message-ID: <d6wenuxkk6x.fsf@pentagram.troll.no> X-Deja-AN: 120087157 sender: agulbra@pentagram.troll.no references: <EKU.95Nov17105401@delphi.philosys.de> followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.apps organization: Troll Tech AS, fax +47 22646949 newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system