[plug] deleted/missing files

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Lucas van Staden
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 7:52 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] deleted/missing files
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  From experience, if you do intend to do some kind of undelete, you
> MUST
> stop all activity on the drive in question.
> Your chances to undelete/recover files from the system decreases as you
> use the drive, as the nodes containing your info get over written
> 
> Added to that (again from past experience), to undelete from an ext2
> partition is a simpler job, and from ext3 is much less likely.
> 
> It is due to the above, that I only use ext2 for certain hd's now where
> I store critical data, and ext3 for the root system
> 
> -Lucas
> 
> Jon L. Miller wrote:
> > There was a backup however the backup folder is also empty which I
> cannot
> > explain, because it was using a USB connected device to a mapped
> drive off
> > a windows xp desktop.  The program was doing the backup with any
> problems.
> >  Yet the day the server came to me the folder in question was empty
> on
> > both the server and the backup unit.
<snip>

What about running an undelete programs on the USB drive? If it's empty, there's a greater chance of getting a file off it...
Before the nightly backup anyway...

FWIW I run the SAMBA recycler to catch deletions.

Craig F.