MSRI User Education Seminar

Tools of the Trade

File Restorations

Every (sub)directory in your account has a .snapshot backup directory

Snapshots are taken throughout each day at:
9:00 am 12:00 noon 3:00 pm 6:00 pm

To restore a file:

cd to the directory where the file resided before it was lost

cd to the .snapshot directory

select the most appropriate hourly.N directory (use ls -lu)

copy the file back to the correct location in your directory hierarcy

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