[plug] recovering deleted files

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Mike Hasleby wrote:

> One of our staff members has accidently deleted a file he has been 
> working on all day (using Excel) that is stored on our staff file server 
> on an ext2 filesystem
> Is it possible to undelete this.  I remember reading some emails on 
> something similar on plug about 2 years ago

No.

If it's _really_ important you can 

dowm the server (speed is an issue)
up it in single user mode
unmount the FS (if it's mounted)
grep the device for some token in the data.
dd a chunk at the appropriate offest.
_try_ to build a valid excel file out of it.


Yours Tony

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