NEED utility to restore from disk

[Kathy Bergsma]

Please don't laugh! A user's directory was accidently (it's always
and accident, isn't it) removed from a DS3100 running Ultrix 4.3.
Does anyone know of a utility or service that can restore from disk?

Thanks,
Kathy

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Kathy Bergsma
Computer Support Analyst
kber...@stat.ufl.edu
http://stat.ufl.edu/users/kbergsma/
(904)392-8446
(904)392-4168 (fax)

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955):
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
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Kathy Bergsma
Computer Support Analyst
kber...@stat.ufl.edu
http://stat.ufl.edu/users/kbergsma/
(904)392-8446
(904)392-4168 (fax)

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955):
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
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[Alan Rollow - Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.]

In article <KBERGSMA.9...@azalea.stat.ufl.edu>, kber...@stat.ufl.edu (Kathy Bergsma) writes:

>Please don't laugh! A user's directory was accidently (it's always
>and accident, isn't it) removed from a DS3100 running Ultrix 4.3.
>Does anyone know of a utility or service that can restore from disk?

Is it safe to assume that restore is not a reasonable suggestion (this
requireing a backup created with dump)?

1. Dismount the file system before any of the blocks can get
allocated.

2. The files are gone. Recovery won't be easy and may
require sifting through every free file fragment on
the file system.

3. Get a copy of gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/sysadm/recover.tar.Z.

This program knows how to search the free block on a cylinder group
by cylinder group basis for "text" files. See the comments in the
program for what it consider text. With hints it can limit its
search to specific cylinder groups.

Warnings. The program requires read access to the raw partition.
This bypassing of normal file system security may give some system
managers fits because it allows the user to look at every block
that deleted files that hasn't been recycled.

The program has no way of knowing what file a particular block belonged
to, so you end with a very large jigsaw puzzle.

Good luck.
>
>
>Kathy Bergsma

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Alan Rollow al...@nabeth.cxo.dec.com

[Bob Tetstall]

As far as I know , it can't be done.
You might want to try writing a script that replacec the rm command with a
command that will instead of removing files , will move them to a safe place
to prevent this from happening again.
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Bob Tetstall btet...@vnet.ibm.com
ISSC , IBM Greenock , Scotland
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