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Iliyas Shirol
Asked: 2012-01-13 02:04:06 +0800 CST

Recover data from EXT3 filesystem

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Our junior sysadmin accidently deleted some of the directories. Can anyone please suggest any free/proprietary application to recover files from an EXT3 filesystem (RHEL 5.x) ?

linux ext3 rm

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    I really hope you have already taken the affected partition offline so to prevent data been written on top of the deleted data.

    One useful tool that has worked for me in the past is extundelete. Remount the affected partition as read only and then use extundelete to recover the data.

    I suppose it is pointless to reiterate that prevention is always better than the cure. Keep daily backups at least.

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  3. You can use extundelete. We tried it before. It is a great tool!

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