emergency: human factor deleted everything...

f.kater · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Berlin

Hi,

while trying to use rsync locally to make a backup of important data to another harddisk (exchangeble) I deleted my whole system.

This is really shocking, friends.

Simple question: Is there a way to recover data which was deleted with rm?

Here is in detail what I have done:
- inserted my second hard disk (exchangable)
- started computer and gentoo
- mounted the second harddisk to /mnt/backup/
- did rsync -[some options] /home/myself/* /mnt/backup/home-myself/
- then saw that the data in /mnt/backup/home-myself/ did not arive proproperly due to wrong options
- cd /mnt/backup/home-myself/
- wanted to delete the stuff again: rm -r ./*
- this somehow started to delete files not only on the backup-harddisk but on the main harddisk, too! WHY?
- the system can't be started again
- I started with my gentoo installation CD
- mounted the drives
- saw that /mnt/backup/home-myself/ is deleted but also /etc, and /usr, and /home ...

Setting up again the system is not the problem, but:
Please, if you have any idea to get my /home/myself/ back...

'bye
Felix

f.kater · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Berlin

Me again,

first, let me add that the fs was ext3.

I found out that grep works on whole drives. Of most importance is a single text file openoffice (my thesis!) I lost.
When I boot with the gentoo installation CD

f.kater · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Berlin

.... and again:

I guess that what I wrote about grep is a bad idea since the files made by openoffice are compressed, right?

Malakin · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 9:53 pm Post subject:

there are undelete type programs out there for ext2, which should also work for ext3.

xorbe