Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. > I've got ffsrecov to work in several hours of fixing it up to work with UFS2. But actually it can do nothing with deleted files - their inodes are all zeroes, excluding uid/gid, which is less important to me.... Seems like everything is lost... ;-((((Received on Tue Apr 20 2004 - 04:16:15 UTC
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