Thoughts on undeleting ext3 files

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Sat May 8 23:24:53 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 06:25, bryan at redfedora.co.uk wrote:
> Subject: Thoughts on undeleting ext3 files
> 
> 
> > Since this has come up, I was wondering if anyone has any ideas about
> 
> I always remember a guy from my formative years saying measure twice, cut
> once (carpentry) and I guess that is really apt in this scenario. Chalk it
> up to experience and don't make the mistake again. It is a tragic experience
> for the poor guy but he'll not make the same mistake as long as he lives, I
> guarantee it! We all mess up at some time and learn from it for our own
> benefit.
> 
> It looks like it's a remote server so maybe it'd be best to persuade someone
> at the location to do the necessary surgery and get it all back up and
> running again and keep the necessary data intact.
> 
> Bryan
On this same thought, a tar and gzip of critical directories and files
(/bin:/sbin:/etc/boot:/lib) on a server's hard drive might not be a bad
idea.
Then they could be untarred if needed.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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