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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:22:03 -0500
From: "Brian Mathis" <brian.mathis@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Equivalent of recycle bin?
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Brian Mathis <brian.mathis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts.
>  >  When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to
>  >  comment out a call to "rm -f" that took a relative path and since the
>  >  script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several
>  >  files. Many of those are easily replaced but some were source files that
>  >  have been modified the past months and the last backup was from july
>  >  23rd 2007. =/
>  >
>  >  I know I should robustify my script but I was wondering if there's an
>  >  equivalent of the recycle bin I can use so I can easily restore files
>  >  that were not supposed to be deleted?
>  >
>  >  - Eric
>
>  No, there is no "recycle bin" in Linux.  Sorry.  The best you can do
>  is do a google for "undelete linux" and see if any of that helps you.
>  You *may* be able to recover the files if you take a bit-for-bit image
>  of the disk, then manually look through that X GB file for the disk
>  clusters that contain some strings that you remember are in those
>  scripts.  Chances are that if you didn't shut down the server
>  immediately after, the files are gone.
>
>  Of course you know that you should always have backups, but most
>  people need a catastrophe to really understand *how* important they
>  are.  Consider this your catastrophe.

OK, so I'm on the cygwin mailing list and a linux mailing list.  Guess
which I thought I was reading? :)

If you are on Windows Server or Vista, Volume Shadow Copy might help
you get those back.

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