undelete directory

[Paul Bryan]

If it's an ext3 filesystem can you get the data back using the journal, or 
does that only tell you which blocks the data was stored on? If so, you never 
know your luck, maybe those blocks haven't been overwritten yet... 

hoping you do have backups...

Paul.

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 12:50, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> 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