[9fans] undelete a file

2009-08-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello everyone, I have, by mistake, deleted a file. I use fossil. I don't know much about how fossil works... Can I do something to get it back? I tried yesterday, but it says /n/dump/2009 doesn't exist. I looked in /n/dump and there is nothing. I tried '9fs dump' but even after that /n/dump/ is

Re: [9fans] undelete a file

2009-08-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
... Do I need venti to be able to use the dump feature? Thanks Ruda

Re: [9fans] undelete a file

2009-08-13 Thread Martin Neubauer
* Rudolf Sykora (rudolf.syk...@gmail.com) wrote: ... Do I need venti to be able to use the dump feature? Thanks Ruda Probably. You might get away with 9fs snap and having a peek at /n/snap, though. (I'm not sure as I haven't used fossil without venti backing of some sort in years.)

Re: [9fans] undelete a file

2009-08-13 Thread erik quanstrom
... Do I need venti to be able to use the dump feature? if you are using fossil, then yes. - erik

Re: [9fans] undelete a file

2009-08-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
you need venti for dumps, but not snapshots. do 9fs snap and then see if there's anything in /n/snap. these are ephemeral, not archival. i don't believe fossil ships with these turned on by default, so you're likely SOL, sorry. assuming my memory from my last install is correct, and it's not

Re: [9fans] undelete a file

2009-08-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
2009/8/13 Anthony Sorace ano...@gmail.com: you need venti for dumps, but not snapshots. do 9fs snap and then see if there's anything in /n/snap. these are ephemeral, not archival. i don't believe fossil ships with these turned on by default, so you're likely SOL, sorry. Well, after 9fs snap

Re: [9fans] undelete a file

2009-08-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
you need to read fossilcons(8) for how to turn them on. the man page makes clear (i think) that there are two types of snapshots, archival and not. i think the default behavior is explained, too (see the description of snaptime).