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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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?"