Re: Help! Accidentally started deleting /usr

[Roberto Diaz <rdiazmartin@vivaldi.dhis.org>]

> I don't have the luxury of a CD burner.  I backup to the hard drive of
> another machine.  I don't have room to do a full backup, but a backup
> of the important bits should be enough to recover --- just that it
> might take a little longer.  An undelete feature would mean a
> reduction in the number of circumstances where this "longer
> restoration effort" was required.

You havent an undelete in unix but you can easily implement something like
this:

For example you can make your own rm:

(pseudocode that shall be improved but you get the idea)
myrm:

#!/bin/bash
backup_dir=/usr/local/share/secure/backup

for i in $*
do
    # fix: comprobe first if the file exist in the backup and rename
    #      as needed
    mv $i $backup_dir # dont rm just move.
done
exit 0

then you could put a crontab to remove the contentents at backup_dir
periodically, or just do it by hand.. 

if you remove something by accident you dont have to care about this since
you only has moved it..


Regards

Roberto

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