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