<br><br><br>Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] big trouble and of course no backup.. ironically it was during a backup attempt that i messed up...
I have one rhat5.2 sys byers my main machine and it is still ok I have another rhat6.2 sys corni (mainly my wife's) Well I was trying to back up my /etc dir of my 5.2 sys byers by copying it over to a subdir under a username on my 6.2 sys corni I used ftp as root and thot i had the right syntax to get the files copied over to that subdir. Instead, the files were copied alright but to the rhat6.2 corni /etc so it overwrote all files that had same name: [root@corni detc]# ftp -i byers Connected to byers.pacbell.net. ... Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> mget /etc/* --- using mget to copy files from byers to corni ---i guess i needed the proper subdir on corni as 2nd argument --- i didnt think this thru carefully, thot by running ftp --- from the desired subdir on corni would pull the files --- over to that subdir, but evidently not. --- instead it pulled the files over to /etc on corni full reinstall only possibility? or what? I am not thinking too clearly right now... any advice appreciated.. Jack _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
