Thanks to everyone who pointed out that ls -lu will show the time the snapshot was created, but I already knew what time the snapshot was created. The mystery is this: I know this file was modified every day this week and had new email messages in it yesterday. Even if the file was somehow replaced by an old file with a June 10 modification date, shouldn't the nightly.0 snapshot still have yesterday's more current version of the file?
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Brian Long Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:27 AM To: Fahy, Michael Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: snapshot issue
Any time you want to tell the time a snapshot was created, use ls -lu.
/Brian/
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Fahy, Michael wrote:
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:44:12 -0700 From: "Fahy, Michael" fahy@chapman.edu To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: snapshot issue
Our webmaster, who gets email every day, reported this morning that
her
inbox was missing all messages received after June 10. the inbox is
in
a /var/mail filesystem mounted from a filer. Assuming that her inbox had gotten corrupted since yesterday, I looked at the snapshots to
find
one that had her recently received messages.
[/var/mail/.snapshot/hourly.0] ls -l mthomas
-rw-rw---- 1 mthomas mail 14482423 Aug 27 08:13 mthomas
[/var/mail/.snapshot/hourly.1] ls -l mthomas
-rw-rw---- 1 mthomas mail 14482423 Jun 10 12:21 mthomas
Note that the file from the hourly.1 snapshot appears to be the same file as the one from the hourly.0 snapshot but it has a June 10 date. All the other snapshots also have the June 10 date.
Has anyone seen anything like this with snapshots?