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[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:42, Brian Jackson wrote:
>   
> > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 10:36, Mike Noble wrote:
> >     
> > > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 01:05, Vince Oliver wrote:
> > >       
> > > > I have deleted some important files with
> > > > rm -f *
> > > >
> > > > Is there a war to recover them in SuSE 10?
> > > >         
> > > Hope you have backups, otherwise they are gone.
> > >       
> > Unless they are JPEG images, then you can use the recoverjpeg package to
> > try a recovery.  Works pretty good.
> >     
>
> Google is your friend.
>
> A google for 'linux file recover'   found at least this and many other 
> links.....
>
> http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/
>   
Or if they are text, and you have a big enough partition:
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/hda3_partition_image.img bs=5M
I think the optimal block size is about half the rate the data is copied 
per second. I've not tested this thoroughly, though.
then (much later)
strings /mnt/hda3_partition_image.img > 
/mnt/hda3_partition_image_strings.txt
grep -i "stuff I want" /mnt/hda3_partition_image_strings.txt | less

I had to do this a week or so ago due to HDD failure :-( It took 16 
hours to read the 8Gb disk because there were so many read errors. I did 
get back the two files I needed, though. Fortunately all the copies of 
the file had the same beginning and ending so I could write a quick 
script to pull all the copies out then diff them to find the newest. I 
learnt my lesson, and have set up RAID 1 and a backup cron job that 
copies the files to an unprivileged user account on another machine that 
in turn will be backed up to tape.


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