Hi Frank, Thank you very much for the information! Meanwhile I've found this software: http://www.ufsexplorer.com/, I'm going to give a try.
Regards, Laci Sent from my mobile. On 2013.09.08., at 11:07, Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-...@fjl.co.uk> wrote: > On 08/09/2013 09:46, Laszlo Danielisz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> By mistake I forgot to edit my crontab on my FreeBSD 8.3 after I took out >> one of the hard drives. >> I had a little rsync script which I used to synchronise a directory between >> those two hard drives, because one of the hard drives were not present >> anymore and rsync had the --delete parameter I end up deleting the whole >> directory, of course with precious informations. >> >> I have ufs on the hdd, after the "accident" I've turned off the computer to >> avoid any writings on the disk. >> Do you have any idea how can I recover the lost directory? >> >> Thank you! >> Laci > > Hi Laci, > > I'm sorry to have to tell you that recovering UFS is not easy. It's not like > MS-DOS or NFTS at all in that respect. When you delete from UFS it removes > inode data and adds the space released to the free block list. It's a one-way > process; there is no journalling and no way to undo any of it. > > I don't know of any public domain utilities that will do what you need. > EnCase can do something with UFS, and a utility called "Raise Data Recovery" > will get stuff from damaged disks. This isn't the same as getting back > deleted files. > > The only option I've ever found to work is to scan the disk's free blocks > (all of them in your case) with a utility that recognises specific file > formats and pieces the file together using the contents it reads from each > block, using "best guess" and manual choice to decide which the next block > is. This is no joke if you've lost a lot of files, but worth it if you have > one or two vital ones amongst them. > > Sorry I can't be of any more comfort. As I'm sure someone will chip in, there > are things you can do before the event. > > Regards, Frank. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
