[SunHELP] Re: Deleted Folders Mistakenly

[Will Mc Donald]

He may not be *entirely* screwed...

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1441/sam0111b/0111b.htm

I've used the linux techniques from time to time just because it's quicker
that breaking out the previous day's tapes. The non-linux method is a lot
more effort but might help... if he's extremely lucky or wise enough to have
umounted the partition as soon as the problem was noted. :)

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hichael Morton" <mh1272 at yahoo.com>
To: <madhukiran.cvs at polaris.co.in>; <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:26 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] Re: Deleted Folders Mistakenly


> madhukiran,
>
> You might want to post an email message to one of sunhelp.org's lists.
>
> Basically, you are hosed.  UNIX's rm -r is complete and permanent.  You
> will need to reload your last backup and start again at your backup
> point.
>
> Of course, you now realize the need for timely backups.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> HM
>
>
> madhukiran.cvs at polaris.co.in wrote:
> >
> > HI Michael,
> >      I have an emergency here as one of my colleagues had removed an
entire
> > software release folder under development in SS20.
> > The OS is SunOS 4.1.4.
> > He had done the removal by rm -R <dir> as root through Telnet session
and
> > closed the session when the operation was completed only to realize it
was
> > a blunder.
> > Can any one tell me how to recover the data as it is the heart of the
> > development as i have no backup of the directory with recent changes
i.e.,
> > during the Nov month.
> >
> > thanx in advance
> > great regards
>
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