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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jun 5 18:36:00 1992
From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 18:35:49 EDT
I accidentally purged the files in a directory branch today! I think I did:
cd /mit/visdycon/old/Dev
find . -name '*.o' -print -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
To my horror I found that all files (not just the .o files) were purged as
well! I am trying to recreate the directory branch by doing:
cd /mit/visdycon
fs mkm Backup course.visdycon.backup
cd /mit/visdycon/Backup/old/Dev
tar cf - . | ( cd /mit/visdycon/old/Dev/ ; tar xf - )
There were two problems. Before the tar process was completed, the disk
quota of 67100 K was reached and the process failed to proceed.
The other problem was that I noticed that during the process, tar could not
create some files in the target because of permission restrictions. E,g.
/Ves/dei/ves/shells: Permission denied
./Ves/dei/ves/help: Permission denied
./Ves/dei/ves/backup: Permission denied
./Ves/dei/ves/test: Permission denied
./Ves/dei/hello_prog: Permission denied
./Ves/dei/proto: Permission denied
./Ves/paul/archive: Permission denied
./backup/klinkage/wmicons: Permission denied
./andy/thesis: Permission denied
./matthew/graph/old: Permission denied
./matthew/toolattempt/icons: Permission denied
./matthew/tmp: Permission denied
I need your help desperately to recreate the directory branch in
/mit/visdycon/Backup/old/Dev. Note! Not the entire volume! Only the
said directory branch. Many changes were made to the other directories
today, and those are OK. It's just /mit/visdycon/Backup/old/Dev that
needs to be mapped back to /mit/visdycon/old/Dev.
Please please please help. I suppose an quota increase would be necessary
to accomplish this (at least until we clean up the locker later).
-Tim
