Victor Odhner wrote:

> Hi, Michael.  You say you used "cp" to overwrite an
> index.html file.  Bummer!  Read ALL of this message
> before doing anything ...
>
> If the command completed, then the contents of the old
> file are basically gone, barring some very sophisticated
> forensic tricks which are probably out of scope for this
> discussion.

The command completed :(

>
> Oh hey:  had you recently browsed the old index.html
> from another PC, that has not since then visited the
> site?  If so, QUICK!

Tried this, no luck, but great thinking :|

> copy that browser's cache to
> another directory, then start going through all HTML
> files.  You might find a copy there!  But you mustn't
> re-visit your site before snapping a copy of that
> cache, or it may overwrite with the new version.
> Note that cached copies often don't bear the names
> of the web site's file.
>
> As a computing veteran, I need to ask:  how complex was
> that index.html?

Not to bad , but my typing sux so it took forever! Glad I am taking a 
typing clas this semester!!

>   If it represented a substantial amount
> of work, I'm sorry.  But *so* many times I have stepped
> on my past few hours of work, and found that re-creation
> was much quicker and often resulted in a better product.

I hope!

>
> Good luck.  Lessons sometimes suck.
> But you'll be darn sure to keep backups in the
> future, eh?

Heh, aint that the truth.. Good thing I am looking at buying a server 
with  RAID and back up tape drive!! Really could've used it tonight. I 
thought I had all of it backed up, but no, I was an idiot!

>
> Vic
>
> Michael Sammartano wrote:
>
>> I accidentially copied a file over an existing file. Is it possible 
>> to undo this? I copied a file over my index.html file, and I though I 
>> Had a back up but "SURPRISE" I don't!
>> Command I used was from /srv/www/htdocs/kwolf
>>
>> cp kwolf.html /srv/www/htdocs/index.html
>
>
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