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Re: Equivalent of recycle bin?
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Brian Mathis <brian.mathis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts.
> > When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to
> > comment out a call to "rm -f" that took a relative path and since the
> > script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several
> > files. Many of those are easily replaced but some were source files that
> > have been modified the past months and the last backup was from july
> > 23rd 2007. =/
> >
> > I know I should robustify my script but I was wondering if there's an
> > equivalent of the recycle bin I can use so I can easily restore files
> > that were not supposed to be deleted?
> >
> > - Eric
>
> No, there is no "recycle bin" in Linux. Sorry. The best you can do
> is do a google for "undelete linux" and see if any of that helps you.
> You *may* be able to recover the files if you take a bit-for-bit image
> of the disk, then manually look through that X GB file for the disk
> clusters that contain some strings that you remember are in those
> scripts. Chances are that if you didn't shut down the server
> immediately after, the files are gone.
>
> Of course you know that you should always have backups, but most
> people need a catastrophe to really understand *how* important they
> are. Consider this your catastrophe.
OK, so I'm on the cygwin mailing list and a linux mailing list. Guess
which I thought I was reading? :)
If you are on Windows Server or Vista, Volume Shadow Copy might help
you get those back.
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