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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