[ale] How do I 'undelete' a file?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Jan 18 16:01:56 EST 2002


But you better shut down the box in question if you want to try and 
retrieve that file...

Jason Lynn wrote:

> Search for "undelete" at freshmeat.  I loaded some undelete package for 
> some guy at work that I found at freshmeat.  It worked... mostly.
> 
> jason
> 
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 12:33, Charles Marcus wrote:
>> > I knew I might do something dumb...
>>
>> In general, there is no concept of "undelete" a file for the filesystems
>> that unix systems use. If you come from the Windows world where Norton
>> Utilities has made this a common thing then you need to forget that it
>> ever existed as of now :)
>>
>> Making nightly backups so that you can restore is the best way to
>> protect yourself.
>>
>> V
>> -- 
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>> insatiable.
>> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vernard/      Lightness has a call thats hard
>> to hear.
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