debianuser Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Hey guys I think i made the biggest mistake of my life, I am in charge of administrating a Linux (debian) server and typed the RM command in the wrong directory and ended up deleting the finances files of the company.. i was working on the backup but realize i did not have any backup of this folders... I am a dead man... please help!!! the partition is ext3 and i have been googling, please give me hints, whatever, even links to professional recovery tool... sorry if my post is not structured, I am overly tired and really freaking out... :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I have a horrible feeling that ext3 blanks out the block pointers in the inode when you delete a file and you have to do something complicated with greping the actual device for parts of the missing files. There is also something called Foremost, which could be what your looking for. The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy might fit the bill also. And you might also want to try some of the liveCD's geared towards forensics like Helix. Other than that, if it doesn't work its probally time to call in the pro's. http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ (or from the Debian apt-get packages) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Midnight Commander had file recovery for EXT2 filesystems. As EXT3 is backwards and forwards compatible with EXT2, you've still got a decent chance of recovering that data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I think your only option is to cover it up by going into your company's server room late at night incognito, rip out the drives of all the servers in there and scarper. When you come in the next day you can appear shocked and blame it on corporate espionage. Shouldn't you have backups of your company's finances anyway? Like on tape or something? It seems a bit careless to only have one set of copies on a single machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Problem: Shit happens. Stage 1: Deal with shit. Stage 2: Work out why shit happened Stage 3: Make sure that type of shit never happens again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixgeek Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 This is why the word "Backup" applies to most Sysadmins running production servers containing any sort of important data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 As I'm reading this thread the Paradise Lost song "As I Die" started playing. Do you believe in coincidence? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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