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Re: recovery from rm -rf?



On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:19:46PM -0500, Charles Menzes wrote:
> no its not a joke. is there any recovery from this except restoring from
> backup?

You might look at the undelete tools here
	http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/10/14/908382417.html
here
	http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/06/10/960659825.html
and maybe the undeletion miniHOWTO here
	http://www.cloudmaster.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html

Also, look into setting the immutable flag with chattr on files you
really can't spare.  Maybe even alias rm to rm -whatever-the-flag-to-prompt-is
on an important machine...

--Danny, who does stuff like that more often than he likes to admit (like, ever)
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