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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Description ==<br />
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The CS systems administrators maintain a snapshot system to provide live, self-service file restores to users. There are six hourly backups taken everyday at four-hour intervals, daily backups every day of the week, four weekly backups kept for a month, and then three monthly backups.<br />
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To access them, go to any ACL and <tt>cd</tt> into the /snapshots directory. Then cd into the backup level you want (you can use <tt>ls -l</tt> to figure out when the backups were taken), and then <tt>cd</tt> into <tt>quark/clients/users/$USER</tt> to access the backups of your home directory. You can then copy these files into your home directory on quark.<br />
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== Example of use ==<br />
If I wanted to restore my ~/.bash_profile file from last week, I would execute these commands:<br />
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# <tt>cd /snapshots/weekly.0/clients/users/skylar</tt><br />
# <tt>cp .bash_profile ~/</tt></div>Skylar