[AusNOG] Really embarrassing question.

[Luke Thompson]

That mistake would've been fixed by automating. 

Time to start. ;-) You'll save a bunch of time for it. 

Luke Thompson
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> On 13 Apr 2016, at 7:31 PM, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> <fx: hangs head in shame>
> 
> In a distracted moment, I've clobbered a file.
> 
>  > /var/mail/poorbastard
> 
> instead of
> 
>  > /var/mail/otherbastard
> 
> 
> It's a FreeBSD system.
> The file in question doesn't have a sufficiently recent backup I can restore.
> Blame, "should have" and similarly derogatory comments to /dev/null thanks.
> 
> I was told "testdisk" might recover the file, but it didn't.
> 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.
> 
> (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).
> 
> Thanks,
> R.
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