Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:09:28 +0100 From: Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DClk=FC?= SAYILAN <ulku.sayilan@kssgm.gov.tr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: urgent Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20030425110258.031b6b88@aph2k> In-Reply-To: <696273044.20030425114508@kssgm.gov.tr>
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At 11:45 25/04/2003 +0300, =DClk=FC SAYILAN wrote: >I have delete accidently my files that is in oen directory with this=20 >command... > >rm -rf ?* > >but I have to recover it... because a lots of document lost... > >I can I do for recovering? > Do a search on the archives for "undelete" .. this one popped up for me: http://www.ccl.net/cca/software/UNIX/recover-files-after-rm/index.shtml but basically, if it's gone, it's gone. If you've written anything to the= =20 filesystem since the delete, there's a fair chance the data has been overwritten= already. I would recommend restoring from backups. If you don't already do them,= then look on this as a learning experience, and start doing them in future. = Having been bitten myself, I now have a 120Gb IDE in my server, taking a copy every night using pdumpfs (in ports). works a charm,and substantially cheaper= than a 40Gb tape drive, which I'd have needed otherwise. With the drive only= ever mounted for the backup, and unmounted afterwards, it's not very likely to= get trashed by anything else.
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