undelete directory

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Thu Oct 31 12:50:29 EST 2002


Sonya Kim wrote:
> I noticed one directory in our Linux server is deleted yesterday.
> We are using samba to access this server.
> Is there any way that we can get back this directory?

Recover it from your backup tapes.

Unfortunately, there is no "undelete" command under Linux.  There are 
some tools around to let you try to recover deleted ("unlinked") files 
from an ext2 filesystem:

http://e2undel.sourceforge.net/recovery-howto.html

However, by this time the data has probably been overwritten.

Alex




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