[CentOS] Ext3 undelete

Thu Aug 12 21:41:18 UTC 2010
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Whit Blauvelt
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 17:31
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Ext3 undelete
> 
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:26:00PM -0700, Don Krause wrote:
> 
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete_ext3.html
> 
> That's an excellent little program. It can take some mucking 
> about to find the invocation that will save a particular file 
> or set of files, but it often can get the job done. It's well 
> supported on its mailing list too.
> 

Now the question is will it complete before more than the 100M snapshot is used
up...


[root at host67 tmp]# ext3grep $IMAGE --restore-all --after=1281653802
--before=1281656202
Running ext3grep version 0.10.2
Only show/process deleted entries if they are deleted on or after Thu Aug 12
18:56:42 2010 and before Thu Aug 12 19:36:42 2010.

WARNING: I don't know what EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR is.
WARNING: EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER is set. This either means that your
partition is still mounted, and/or the file system is in an unclean state.
Number of groups: 1846
Minimum / maximum journal block: 1545 / 9747
Loading journal descriptors... sorting... done
The oldest inode block that is still in the journal, appears to be from
1281635206 = Thu Aug 12 13:46:46 2010
Journal transaction 16090037 wraps around, some data blocks might have been lost
of this transaction.
Number of descriptors in journal: 7101; min / max sequence numbers: 16089433 /
16090473
Writing output to directory RESTORED_FILES/
Finding all blocks that might be directories.
D: block containing directory start, d: block containing more directory entries.
Each plus represents a directory start that references the same inode as a
directory start that we found previously.

Searching group 0:
DDDDDDDD+DD+++D+++D++++D+++D++++DD++DDD+DddDDDddDdD+Dddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd


Thanks everyone...

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