Recovering Deleted Files on ReiserFS3? 126
DarkSarin asks: "I have a rather serious problem: I managed to accidentally delete some files (rather important ones at that!) while trying to back them up to cd (I was using a GUI burning software that will remain nameless for now). How do you recover accidentally deleted files in Reiserfs? This thread (started by me) indicates that you can't recover them. Note that I had found a way to rebuild the tree, but that didn't work. It seems odd to me that you wouldn't be able to recover accidental deletions, but that really does seem to be the case. Help? Please?"
More questions... (Score:3, Insightful)
Name the program please (Score:2, Insightful)
Suddenly... (Score:5, Insightful)
(No, that's not really a troll. Human error happens.)
Re:Good luck... (Score:1, Insightful)
As to files being created and destroyed frequently, this is why we partition into at least:
/
swap
obviously var and tmp would not be a place to version files.
you could consider the use of versioning in a place like
Re:Good luck... (Score:2, Insightful)
Periodic backups are a much better answer.
Schemes like this would also require the fs to delete old files when the space is needed, but this is what is done now. The data is still there until the space is used by something else (and even after that for all of you super security freaks). Given, the choice of what to delete could be made in a manner to use the least recently deleted space first, but this would again cause efficiency problems.
Re:Suddenly... (Score:3, Insightful)
The recycle bin only works if it's a well-behaved GUI app.
Do this...
START->RUN->COMMAND and hit enter.
type in
DEL c:\*.* and hit enter.
If you're asked any questions - say 'yes'
Now.... Try to find your files in the "Recycle Bin."
Let me be Mr. Barn-door-closer.... (Score:3, Insightful)
I haven't done this yet (I'm lucky! I have a real tape drive [inostor.com] to backup my stuff.....) but I plan to make my system take a snapshot every hour and every day (total of two) so that at most I lose an hour's worth of work.
Also, I've always wondered if it was possible to make an operating system that would take as long to destroy something as it did to create it. For example, your term paper took ten days to write, so the rm termpaper.tex command would take ten days to run
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Re:Suddenly... (Score:3, Insightful)
Wow this is so easy I'm surprised no one got it (Score:5, Insightful)
How do you recover accidentally deleted files in Reiserfs?
It's really easy. You just restore from backup.
Re:You again! (Score:2, Insightful)