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Started by Andy Lee
Fri, 30 Oct 1992 02:37
Query: Recover rm'd files?
Author: Andy Lee
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 02:37
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 02:37
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Is there ANY way to recover deleted files (using rm)? -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andy A. Lee | UCLA MS Graduate Student, AI Neural Networks | | andylee@cs.ucla.edu | Down-to-Earth Idealist & Independent NeXT Developer | | (310)824-7131 | "If you don't watch your figure, who will?" - TV Ad. |
Re: Query: Recover rm'd files?
Author: Andrew T Duchowski
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 17:21
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 17:21
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In article <1992Oct30.023711.20765@cs.ucla.edu> andylee@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Andy Lee) writes: >Is there ANY way to recover deleted files (using rm)? > [..] Weren't there a 'Norton Utilities for Unix' somwhere? Or is there a public domain thing like this somewhere? Please post an answer to this (and avoid smart-alecky things like 'you should use the recycler and never empty it'). -Andrew -- -- Andrew Duchowski -- Texas A&M University -- andrewd@cs.tamu.edu (non-NeXT mail) -- andrewd@visual2.cs.tamu.edu (NeXT mail)
Re: Query: Recover rm'd files?
Author: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 00:37
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.
Re: Query: Recover rm'd files?
Author: Christian Neuss
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 13:31
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 13:31
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andrewd@tamsun.tamu.edu (Andrew T Duchowski) writes: >In article <1992Oct30.023711.20765@cs.ucla.edu> andylee@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Andy Lee) writes: >>Is there ANY way to recover deleted files (using rm)? >> [..] >Weren't there a 'Norton Utilities for Unix' somwhere? Or is there >a public domain thing like this somewhere? Please post an answer >to this (and avoid smart-alecky things like 'you should use the >recycler and never empty it'). No, after my knowledge, there is no such tool. But there is an easy workaround: You can alias 'rm' do to something like 'move the file to /tmp'. You can then retrieve a file by simply copying it back. Also, after each reboot, /tmp is being cleared, so you won't eat up all your disk space. Hope that helps, (and wasn't to smart alecky) Chris /* * Christian Neuss % neuss@igd.fhg.de % ..in the humdrum */
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