dan@kfw.COM (Dan Mick) (12/01/90)
We're running C News, and last night my active file got hosed due to an unrecoverable disk error (sigh). What should I have done to repair it? What I did was cp active.old active recovact active upact and then rn dumped core when I tried to get in...until I updated some ridiculous things in .newsrc. God knows how they got there. Anyway, was that the safest way to recover?
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (12/02/90)
In article <1990Dec1.012829.7501@kfw.COM> dan@kfw.com (Dan Mick) writes: >We're running C News, and last night my active file got hosed due to an >unrecoverable disk error (sigh). > >What should I have done to repair it? > >What I did was > >cp active.old active >recovact active >upact This is about the best you can do. It's an inherently difficult situation. (Actually, I hadn't thought of using active.old for disaster recovery -- it's left around as sort of a side effect of the paranoia of the code in upact/updatemin -- but that's a sensible use for it.) (Dept. Of Real Trivia: recovact does not take an argument.) -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry