[tech] empty restored files [was: Re: [ucc-announce] UCC /home restored]

[Matt Johnston]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:55:33PM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> G'day
> 
> I found all of the recovered files that I was working on on Friday night in
> mussel:/space/backup..., but none of them had any data in them.  The logs
> had a lot of "salvage: No such device or address" error messages in them.
> I noticed that this happened for other people too.
> 
> Thanks for your efforts in the recovery and the improvements to morwong,
> James (et. al).

Unfortunately, if the files salvaged
(mussel:/space/backup/morwong-salvage) don't have have anything in them,
then there isn't anything that can be done. Though files from Friday night
should still exist in your homedir, the backup was done from approx 12 pm
until 4am IIRC.

Matt