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Re: Query: Recover rm'd files?

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From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 00:37
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Andy Lee writes
> Is there ANY way to recover deleted files (using rm)?
> 
FAQ candidate.

In a word, no.  In theory, if you shutdown your machine very fast, boot
from another disk, mount the disk read only, are good at reading raw  
disks you may be able to snarf around enough to  scrounge most of the  
bits and pieces.  It's the kind of thing that is worth doing only if  
the alternative is repeating all your last 10 years field work in Outer  
Mongolia.

Most of the equivalents of Norton Utilities work the NS works:  put the  
stuff in a temporary hidden directory, and discard later.

The single most important activity a system administrator has is making  
good backups.  Backups make 99% of all disaters into mere nuisances.
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