Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux?

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From: Ken Yap
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 00:00

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|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!
|
|This really should be fixed 2 ways: an undelete, and a --force
|option for tar.  Overwrite is a crappy default.

Like another poster said, you really should be using RCS; or at least
separate aliases or scripts for backup and restore, or maybe a makefile
target for it rather than inviting trouble by using a bare command
which differs only in one character from another one. Yes, I have made
the other mistake, overwritten a tape with tar c when I wanted tar x.

There are reasons for unrm, but this isn't one of them.

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From: ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Ken Yap)
Subject: Re: undelete / unrm / file recover for linux?
Date: 1995/11/25
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