Hi Folks
I have mandrake installed, and have been using a lot of cooker software recently, which is not advised as it is experimental. As far as backups I had none. (Is this a familiar story) So I thought Iw could make a back up. Which would simply consist of my home/Phil dir as that is where everything is kept. I was not too worried about installed programs as I could just reinstall them easily enough. I have a 40GB drive which has a 20 GB WinXP partition and 20GB devoted to Linux, and also a small 2.6GB drive which is not used for anything, so I thought I would copy across my home directory, which didn't work as it first said it already had a Mail dir and then a few more errors, thinking if did not have enough space for the 2.6GB drive, I tried it on the other, but got the same errors. So I thought I would just delete them from the partition and maybe try Tarring the folder instead. I had a dual window Konquerer file browser open, clicked the directory and hit delete, but for some reason it deleted my actual home/Phil dir and not the windows one. So I have deleted all my email's, all my progs, settings and everything else, I copied across the one i had tried to copy and got some of my settings back, but not many, and have managed to get it to look like i had except i still have to set up some mailboxes, but i have still lost all the email's. To cut a long story into a short question, is there such a thing as an undelete command which will look for the mailboxes and see if i can salvage it? The machine has been rebooted since this happened. Who ever said backing up was a method of keeping your data safe? It would have been safer if i had just left the bloody stuff alone! :) -- Phil Deane http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
