Comments on: Linux or UNIX Recover deleted files – undelete files

By: klo

klo — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:35:19 +0000

Worked great for me on ext4

thanks for the tip

By: msrao

msrao — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:05:37 +0000

Hi
using grep command, unnecessary data which matches with the given string will added in the output file. so i thing it is not good method to restore deleted files

By: javier

javier — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:08:54 +0000

How to identify the partition in which the delete file operation occurred?
Can it be possible to just indicate a folder in which it was deleted?
Thanks,

By: abc

abc — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:37:06 +0000

There is no scope of recovery of files

By: pinaki

pinaki — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:44:47 +0000

hi,
i have mistakenly ran a comment “rm *” in the directory “/cust/scripts” which was having files of “.scr” extension. now i want to retrieve all the files. is there any way to retrieve the deleted files. pls help me out…..

By: dilip

dilip — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:47:27 +0000

By mistake I have run a command in CUI mode “rm -rf * text file”…and it deleted other files..
Don’tr know which file have been deleted
how can I check the deleted files?
Is there any command to recover that?
Kindly suggest…its urgent!!

By: Anantha kumar

Anantha kumar — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:57:45 +0000

Sir,
we have used Red hat linux5 in my company…We have used php,mysql …
Problem is some of the .php as well as txt files are to be deleted…
how to recover that files..any 3rd party or free tool or recovery command is there…

pls tell me very very urgent….pls help me

By: g b viswanadh

g b viswanadh — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:51:34 +0000

sir,
how to recover the deleted files in linux in just 3 mints back, is this possible or not,
i think that concerened file of deleted file is to tb store in may i think some other location, i think upto system boot it will be stored in sysytem, and after deleted files where it will be goes to

By: Bizim Oyun Sitesi

Bizim Oyun Sitesi — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:48:48 +0000

Great information about linux recovery. But I couldn’t recover one of my files from ext4 on ubuntu 10.4. Is there any reason not to work ?

Thanks for reply.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:39:54 +0000

Thanks, it was a life saver!

By: rajesh

rajesh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:02:49 +0000

i am mistakely deleted bin files . how to recover the files in redhat linux

By: Soren Frank

Soren Frank — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:12:33 +0000

This saved my life. Got a very important source code file back, 100%. Would have taken me days to rewrite. Didn’t delete a file, but server/samba failed, and stored a file of size 0 on top of the file. Have seen it before. Thank you.

By: mohit

mohit — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:15:50 +0000

my initrd file is deleted and my pc is not boot so how can i recover..?
please tell me m waiting for ur reply..
plz tell me commands..

By: Frode

Frode — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:27:02 +0000

Hi all,

I just had to recover a file from ext3 on Ubuntu, and used the utility ext3grep to do so.

It’s in the Ubuntu repositories, so install it before you need it:
sudo aptitude install ext3grep

And remember, if you are storing your backups encrypted, keep the password to the encrypted folder in a file SEPARATELY (not in the encrypted folder), so when you delete it, you can just restore it, rather than get that ‘sinking feeling’…
I was lucky, ext3grep worked for me – I had to follow the manual recovery examples on the ext3grep homepage, the auto recovery didn’t do it for me.

Best of luck to you!

By: hosney osman

hosney osman — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:47:24 +0000

even i am using
# rm -rf /export/home/john
is there any command to recover this folder again

By: Cullen Linn

Cullen Linn — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:38:18 +0000

Whew…that saved me some time. Very helpful, thank you!

By: Davi

Davi — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:15:26 +0000

Thank you! It worked!
It is not very clear in the instructions, but “nixCraft” is not the name of the file, is something wrote in the beginning of the file…

By: Christophe GRENIER

Christophe GRENIER — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:28:51 +0000

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its ‘Photo Recovery’ name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

PhotoRec is free, this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU Public License. PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of filesystems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. You can download them from this link.

For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory support you are about to recover lost data from. Important: As soon as a pic or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pics or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that even using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.
PhotoRec runs under

* DOS/Win9x
* Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista
* Linux
* FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
* Sun Solaris
* Mac OS X

and can be compiled on almost every Unix system.
Photorec ignores the filesystem, this way it works even if the filesystem is severely damaged.

It can recover lost files at least from

* FAT,
* NTFS,
* EXT2/EXT3 filesystem
* HFS+

ReiserFS includes some special optimizations centered around tails, a name for files and end portions of files that are smaller than a filesystem block. In order to increase performance, ReiserFS is able to store files inside the b*tree leaf nodes themselves, rather than storing the data somewhere else on the disk and pointing to it. Unfortunately, PhotoRec isn’t able to deal with this, it’s why it doesn’t work well with ReiserFS.

By: manish

manish — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:03:04 +0000

i have removed .xsd files now i want them back.can anyone help me to get my .xsd files.

Thanks in advance

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:55:17 +0000

sridhar,

There is no real undelete available (until and unless you go for 3rd party commercial software). Restore file from backup. If it is config file restore by copying 3rd system or reinstalling package.

Appreciate your post.