From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!harpo!duke!bcw Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: recovering lost files Article-I.D.: duke.2177 Posted: Wed May 26 20:28:49 1982 Received: Sat May 29 09:01:12 1982 From: Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University Re: Recovering lost files I suspect that the reason Dan Strick (mcnc!idis!dan) hasn't destroyed an important file in several years on Unix but has on RSX is that hs is more familiar with Unix than he is with RSX. My experience has been otherwise; I've destroyed MANY important files on Unix (and it's a lot easier to do with a terminal which mungs your input before sending it to the system!). This doesn't excuse the rather klutzy user interface on RSX, but the solution proposed doesn't solve the problem very well either: usually the reason you destroy a file is that you are trying to do something to it, which means that probably significant information has been added to it since the last backup (even if it's done daily). Maybe we should have hourly backups? Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University