On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Brian Mathis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Eric Lilja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts. > > When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to > > comment out a call to "rm -f" that took a relative path and since the > > script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several > > files. Many of those are easily replaced but some were source files that > > have been modified the past months and the last backup was from july > > 23rd 2007. =/ > > > > I know I should robustify my script but I was wondering if there's an > > equivalent of the recycle bin I can use so I can easily restore files > > that were not supposed to be deleted? > > > > - Eric > > No, there is no "recycle bin" in Linux. Sorry. The best you can do > is do a google for "undelete linux" and see if any of that helps you. > You *may* be able to recover the files if you take a bit-for-bit image > of the disk, then manually look through that X GB file for the disk > clusters that contain some strings that you remember are in those > scripts. Chances are that if you didn't shut down the server > immediately after, the files are gone. > > Of course you know that you should always have backups, but most > people need a catastrophe to really understand *how* important they > are. Consider this your catastrophe.
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