From: Patrick O'Reilly (patrick.oreilly@uni.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 11:39:40 EDT
Thanks go to all the respondents, who mostly said that I was SOL unless I
had a backup (which I didn't). My favorite line stated that in UNIX, once a
file is deleted, it is gone. Not so quick! I should say I am not a Sun
sysadmin, but a meteorologist who runs a few Sun machines that only get used
by me. So, yes I should have backups, and I do of other important scripts,
but somehow forgot these. My loss...well, almost. Anyway....my original
post:
I recently deleted a directory of files that I would love to have back,
months of work on a few scripts. Instead of typing
rm *.gem *.gif
I typed
rm *.gem * gif
and quickly hit enter without realizing there was no period between * and
gif. Can I restore these files somehow? I am running patched Solaris 8 on
a Ultra-10.
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AND THE WINNERS ARE:
Todd Boss and Ed Rolison.......with:
- unrm, Lazarus; tools used to recover deleted unix files (part of TCT:
the Coroner toolkit)
- surf to http://www.fish.com/tct/help-recovering-file
http://www.porcupine.org/tct.
It's a lot of pain and effort though.
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I went and got the TCT package and though it took overnight to run, worked
like a charm! Wasn't that much of a pain, actually. I am once again the
proud owner of the previously deleted scripts. A little work and time, but
much less than re-writing all the scripts! I heartily endorse the TCT
package. THANKS Todd and Ed!
Patrick
_______________________________________
Patrick O'Reilly
Meteorological Decision Support Scientist
The STORM Project - University of Northern Iowa
patrick.oreilly@uni.edu ~ ph: 319-273-3789
http://www.uni.edu/storm
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a large number of electrons were horribly inconvenienced."
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