Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:05:52 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Steve Ames <steve@energistic.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A way to recover deleted files (just contents) from USF2 Message-ID: <p0600201bbcaad037601d@[10.0.1.5]> In-Reply-To: <20040420125025.GA30066@energistic.com> References: <4084F85B.5070909@delit.net> <20040420102632.GA36668@e-Gitt.NET> <20040420121423.GA1154@frontfree.net> <20040420125025.GA30066@energistic.com>
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At 7:50 AM -0500 2004/04/20, Steve Ames wrote: > That's kinda silly. Unless files are backed up at every edit then most of > us only have periodic filesystem backups. Lets say I just download a 150M > file and then accidentally delete it. Rather than wasting time and bandwidth > downloading again it'd be simpler to just 'unrm' it. Odds are that diskspace > and even inode haven't been recycled yet. Well, if you can't get ffsrecov to work, there's always Wietse Venema's "The Coroner's Toolkit", which includes "unrm" and "lazarus" tools. See <http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html>. Of course, these kinds of things are never guaranteed to work, and if you have to install them on top of the filesystem you're trying to recover then odds are you're wiping out the very inodes you want to try to save. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/>; for more info.
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