<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>That mistake would've been fixed by automating. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Time to start. ;-) You'll save a bunch of time for it. <br><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Luke Thompson</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div id="cm_footer" class="cm_footer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1;"><div id="cm_signature" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Systems Engineer</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">P: 1800 838 505</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">M: 0420 320 930</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">W: <a href="https://www.inksystems.com.au">https://www.inksystems.com.au</a></span></div></div></div></div><div><br>On 13 Apr 2016, at 7:31 PM, Ross Wheeler <<a href="mailto:ausnog@rossw.net">ausnog@rossw.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span><fx: hangs head in shame></span><br><span></span><br><span>In a distracted moment, I've clobbered a file.</span><br><span></span><br><span> > /var/mail/poorbastard</span><br><span></span><br><span>instead of</span><br><span></span><br><span> > /var/mail/otherbastard</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>It's a FreeBSD system.</span><br><span>The file in question doesn't have a sufficiently recent backup I can restore.</span><br><span>Blame, "should have" and similarly derogatory comments to /dev/null thanks.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I was told "testdisk" might recover the file, but it didn't.</span><br><span>The file isn't worth $thousands+ and the downtime required for major sector-by-sector recovery attempts, but if anyone has workable suggestions, I'd be keen to hear them.</span><br><span></span><br><span>(So just to be clear, it's not simply a "deleted file" I want to recover. Upside, the file will be plain text, and "most of it" is still useful, unlike some others where anything less than 100% is the same as nothing).</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks,</span><br><span>R.</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>AusNOG mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>