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I'm running a Debian Server were some important files where been deleted by an user. He used rm -rf * .
Now what can I do to recover these data? Are there any tools like there are for windows?

I hope so

best wishes ceagle05

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The only solution is to

Submitted by tongro on Sat, 2006-09-30 14:48.

The only solution is to restore from backup. I don't know of any undeletion programs for the main Debian filesystems, but in any event undeletion (on any OS) is only feasible if it's done immediately after the deletion, as any subsequent disc writes could easily overwrite the deleted data. On a busy server, you would be almost certainly wasting your time trying.

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There are programs...

Submitted by pinniped on Sat, 2006-09-30 22:51.

But if you have a multiuser machine you can pretty much forget about this deleted data - go for backups. The only time you're likely to have a good success rate with recovering erased data is if you have a machine with only 1 user who doesn't generate numerous new files every day. Even then, you need to boot from a different disk to give yourself a good chance to recover some files. Try using 'apt-cache search' on another Linux machine; hunt for 'forensic', 'undelete', and 'unerase' - you should find something useful.

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Re: Here I give you a link with a useful tip

Submitted by danny0085 on Thu, 2008-04-03 23:37.

[url]http://tips-debian.blogspot.com/2008/04/recover-erased-data-ext2ext3.html
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search google for "unrm"

Submitted by phpdan on Mon, 2007-11-05 13:56.

I've had some moderate luck with unrm stuff. Though I believe that I got no filenames, just the data. So if you fire up a GUI file manager such as konqueor you can then sort through the files with the previews.

Naturally when recovering data, you remove the drive, put it into another system as read only ASAP.

-- phpdan

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