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smiffy92

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Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] XFS Undelete?

Hello,

I accidentally deleted my movies dir :-(

Is there an easy way to undelete in XFS filesystem?

I am currently running photorec and its found loads of files and randomly named them all - plus its finding stuff off there I deleted a long time ago and also files from the drives former life as an NTFS drive - so far its found 850 files and counting - this will take forever to play and rename all movies.

I am wary of the fs now and am thinking of moving to ext3/4 as they have better/more recovery options.

Cheers

Smiffy

Last edited by smiffy92 (2011-09-23 14:51:40)

perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: [SOLVED] XFS Undelete?

http://linuxpr.com/releases/11337.html

ya know what? a simple google search for "xfs undelete" brings up a lot of possibilities ... just saying ...

smiffy92

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Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] XFS Undelete?

A google search was the first thing I did, and is the first thing I always do.

I installed the only 2 user written tools that are available -

first one wouldn't compile because of missing dependencies - I installed some and then there were more dependencies missing which took me back to when I used Linux in 1999/2000, nasty and frustrating.

There was an aur package for the second one (hxtools) and that didn't install properly - still I managed to find the binary xfs_recover and it didn't appear to do anything - just kind of hung.

I relented and downloaded the commercial tool (it works in trial mode)

This found the deleted directories - I made a handwritten list of these and re-downloaded all my deleted files, good job they were backed up on the internet.