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Restoring Deleted Files

Every night around midnight, a ``snapshot'' is taken and saved of all files and directories in your account. If you accidently remove a file, it may be possible to get it back if it existed at the time of the snapshot.

To recover a file, type the command recover list to list the files available in the snapshot of the current directory, and recover fetch filename to recover the file filename.

If the file is not in the snapshot, go to https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu, click on ``Continue to Web Forms'' and fill out the ``Restore Request Form'' to request that the CSL restore your file from backups.



Michelle Craft 2008-01-23