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On Fri 24 September 2004 20:34, Alberto Santana wrote:
Is there a way to recover a directory that was accidentally deleted. It contained months of research, and no, there was no backup of it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Best wishes, Alberto
The short answer is: no. A longer answer would need to know what sort of filesystem it was stored on and whether there has been any disk activity since deleting the directory. But your chances are very small, without a backup. :-( -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E
I suggest you use Storebackup, to avoid this in future..... Jerry On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 21:18, jalal wrote:
On Fri 24 September 2004 20:34, Alberto Santana wrote:
Is there a way to recover a directory that was accidentally deleted. It contained months of research, and no, there was no backup of it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Best wishes, Alberto
The short answer is: no.
A longer answer would need to know what sort of filesystem it was stored on and whether there has been any disk activity since deleting the directory.
But your chances are very small, without a backup.
:-(
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GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E
On Friday 24 September 2004 14:18, jalal wrote:
On Fri 24 September 2004 20:34, Alberto Santana wrote:
Is there a way to recover a directory that was accidentally deleted. It contained months of research, and no, there was no backup of it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Best wishes, Alberto
The short answer is: no.
A longer answer would need to know what sort of filesystem it was stored on and whether there has been any disk activity since deleting the directory.
But your chances are very small, without a backup.
:-(
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GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E I'd like to offer a solution which has bailed my butt out on numerous occasions like when a typo turns out to be the wrong file & I need it back.
I use DAR (http://dar.sourceforge.net/) and have set up cron jobs as follows: cron.daily -- home differential backup cron.weekly -- home complete backup; root differential backup cron.monthly -- root complete backup This seems to be the ticket and the beauty of it is you can set your own cron job to do a backup as often as you'd like. You can also pick/choose the directories you want to exclude. I have a small partition which holds all the backups until such time as they either get deleted by the next major backup or burned to CD. Since I implemented this scheme, I have yet to permanently lose an indispensible file. HTH... -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio "If music be the food of love, why can't rabbits sing?"
jalal wrote:
On Fri 24 September 2004 20:34, Alberto Santana wrote:
Is there a way to recover a directory that was accidentally deleted. It contained months of research, and no, there was no backup of it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Best wishes, Alberto
The short answer is: no.
A longer answer would need to know what sort of filesystem it was stored on and whether there has been any disk activity since deleting the directory.
But your chances are very small, without a backup.
:-(
One would think that anyone working with critical data, such as that, would make backups. They're easy enough to do, with CDR or pen drives. What I have often done, is periodically copied my work, from my computer to a server or other computer. If data is important and can't be easily recreated, backups are mandatory.
Alberto, On Friday 24 September 2004 11:34, Alberto Santana wrote:
Is there a way to recover a directory that was accidentally deleted. It contained months of research, and no, there was no backup of it.
Don't give up just yet (and pay no attention to the finger-wagging, tsk-tsk-ing, chastisements)! DO NOT RUN A FILE SYSTEM CHECK unless you do so in read-only, check-only mode. Don't let it apply any repairs or optimizations! As someone else said, stop using that file system immediately. Removing files mostly just abandons the space they were using, leaving them in the file system's free space list (which may be a fancy data structure and not just a simple list). Any subsequent activity runs the risk of reclaiming some of that space and reusing it for new file contents. Once that happens, only heroic, hard to find and very expensive measures could conceivably recover your data. Depending on the value you assign to the "lost" data, you may want to simply take the drive out and get it to a reputable data recovery firm. The kind of recovery you seek (no actual hardware problems) is generally the easiest, assuming the data is still there. You can find data recovery services through the usual search techniques. The "reputable" part can be harder to ascertain, as usual. In a situation like this, you shouldn't have to pay more than a few hundred dollars from a high-end firm. If money is a big deal, you can try to find and use some recovery software (though I have no real experience with such software), but the important thing is that you access the file system strictly in a read-only mode. If you must mount the file system, be sure to use the read-only option.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Best wishes, Alberto
That's gracious, but I think you need the good wishes!
Alberto Santana, PhD
Hey! You've already got your doctorate. Isn't this some grad student's problem?? Randall Schulz
Alberto Santana wrote:
Is there a way to recover a directory that was accidentally deleted. It contained months of research, and no, there was no backup of it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
If the file is (mainly) text, you can use grep as root on the raw partition. This requires quite a lot of guesswork and a lot of free space on another partition (Windows? /tmp?) to dump the grep output. Check man grep for what grep can do. The kind of command you might be looking for is # grep -E Alberto /dev/hda12 -A 5000 -a > /tmp/recover -- JDL
The Friday 2004-09-24 at 14:34 -0400, Alberto Santana wrote:
Is there a way to recover a directory that was accidentally deleted. It contained months of research, and no, there was no backup of it.
Ough. If the partition is fat or ext2/3, there are undelete programs - for example, mc (Midnight Comander), can do it for ext2 at least. For reiserfs, I don't know, but their developpers can anser questions for a donative or fee (it's on their web page). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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John Lamb -
Randall R Schulz