[7362] in Hotline Meeting
more details to phone message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (deckjf@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 13 11:54:27 1992
From: deckjf@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 11:54:07 EST
Hi, I left a phone message this morning asking whether it would be possible
to restore some files that I deleted accidentally. This message is just to
supply some additional details and the exact directory involved.
What happened was that I was working late Saturday night (1:00 sunday,
actually) and, after cleaning up my Mail messages, I wanted to get a listing.
What I was thinking was, "is it 'ls -R' or 'ls -r'"? but what I typed was "rm
-R Mail" - with the predictable result. Ooops.
None of the files that I lost was what you could call mission critical.
However, it will be quite difficult for me to reconstruct my aliases file,
and I wonder whether it would be possible to restore, ideally, the entire tree
/mit/deckjf/Mail and its subdirectories, or, at least, the single file
/mit/deckjf/Mail/aliases. Even a backup that is weeks old would be great. I
know this isn't policy, but.. what can I say? I've been using Athena for 5+
years and this is the first time I've made such a request. It was stupid to
be working when I was so tired and slow-minded.
I have already aliased rm to delete -E-e in my .cshrc.mine. Barring the door
after the horses have fled, I'm afraid.
As I mentioned in the telephone message I left about 11:00 Monday morning,
my numbers are:
office: 3-2334
lab: 3-5087
username: deckjf
Sheepishly,
Joe Deck
