Re: Recovering missing files in /var

From: Bill Verzal (BVerzal@KOMATSUNA.COM)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 11:08:01 EDT


Whny do you feel the need to re-install / restore ?
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Bill Verzal
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Somehow, loads of files got deleted from /vcar on one of our nodes. Like
most of the contents of /var/adm/ras and /var/adm/SPlogs. The node's still
up and running, oddly enough.

I've decided to re-install the node from a mksysb, as that way I'm
confident
that everything will be OK but for future reference do you think I could
have got away with restoring the individual missing files, (as best I could
- the mksysb is a couple of days old) and rebooting?

Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.

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