very stupid mistake: a part of /usr is deleted

Andrei Kolu antik at bsd.ee
Wed Sep 15 15:48:01 UTC 2010


2010/9/15 Zara Kanaeva <zara.kanaeva at ggi.uni-tuebingen.de>

> Hi all,
>
> vor 2 hours i made a very stupid mistake: i have deleted (as root
> naturally) a part of /usr-directory. I have definitely deleted .snap and
> presumably 100-150 files in /usr/bin.  If my attempt with backup-restore
> failed, can i get the binaries, that was deleted, with
> sysinstall/distributions/base ?
>
> uname -a ->
> FreeBSD (XXXXXX).uni-tuebingen.de 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat
> Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009     root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  amd64
>
> You can install 8.0-RELEASE into other computer or virtual machine and then
just copy over missing files.


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