On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 16:37, Phil Deane wrote: > > Hi Folks > > I have mandrake installed, and have been using a lot of cooker software > recently, which is not advised as it is experimental. As far as backups I had > none. (Is this a familiar story) > > So I thought Iw could make a back up. Which would simply consist of my > home/Phil dir as that is where everything is kept. I was not too worried > about installed programs as I could just reinstall them easily enough. > > I have a 40GB drive which has a 20 GB WinXP partition and 20GB devoted to > Linux, and also a small 2.6GB drive which is not used for anything, so I > thought I would copy across my home directory, which didn't work as it first > said it already had a Mail dir and then a few more errors, thinking if did > not have enough space for the 2.6GB drive, I tried it on the other, but got > the same errors. So I thought I would just delete them from the partition and > maybe try Tarring the folder instead. > > I had a dual window Konquerer file browser open, clicked the directory and > hit delete, but for some reason it deleted my actual home/Phil dir and not > the windows one. So I have deleted all my email's, all my progs, settings > and everything else, I copied across the one i had tried to copy and got > some of my settings back, but not many, and have managed to get it to look > like i had except i still have to set up some mailboxes, but i have still > lost all the email's. > > To cut a long story into a short question, is there such a thing as an > undelete command which will look for the mailboxes and see if i can salvage > it? The machine has been rebooted since this happened. > > > Who ever said backing up was a method of keeping your data safe? It would > have been safer if i had just left the bloody stuff alone! :) > > You may be able to recover some stuff using 'recover' from http://recover.sourceforge.net and it's gui partner 'gtkrecover'
Unfortunately, it doesn't recover the filenames, but the contents of the recovered files should be enough for you to figure them out. Good luck ;-) Kyle -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
