topic Re: undelete in Operating System - HP-UX

undelete

Alex Gavi — Wed, 02 May 2001 14:34:39 GMT

I used to have an undelete utility in the past on my HPUX 9.x server. It worked sometimes depending on the state of the inode table. Does any one know if there is one still available for 11.xx?

Thanks

Re: undelete

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 02 May 2001 14:40:58 GMT

There is no undelete, at least none that I am aware of, on HP-UX 11. There may be some shareware type stuff out there somewhere, but there is nothing native to HP-UX.

Re: undelete

Vincenzo Restuccia — Wed, 02 May 2001 14:43:17 GMT

rm -i ... :)

Re: undelete

boley janowski — Wed, 02 May 2001 14:53:23 GMT

doesn't the rm -i just ask you if you really want to remove something, if you set this as an alias for rm you might be a little safer but once its gone its gone?

Re: undelete

Mark Vollmers — Wed, 02 May 2001 15:45:27 GMT

Hi-

I thought that if you used the 'del' command, it would tuck the file somewhere (like a trash can on Windows) but then you had to remember to delete it from there. This doesn't work for rm, though. So I guess that the only "undo rm" type command would be "go get backup tape"

Mark

Re: undelete

boley janowski — Wed, 02 May 2001 16:30:56 GMT

Vollmers,

I forgot, thats how i undo my bad rm's, of course not that i ever have any!!

Re: undelete

Mike Nemeth — Wed, 02 May 2001 16:33:20 GMT

Well, I use is on my 10.20 system.
It only handle the last 15 deletions.
I have no Idea if it works with 11.
I've a unrm.sh file containing a binary and a man page.
The man page has the author's email
addy: rdg@fc.hp.com.
I remember geting it at some hp site but cannot find it now! I've attached
the shar file.

Re: undelete

Mark Mitchell — Wed, 02 May 2001 17:47:37 GMT

You could set up a lv and make a script to move specified files there. Then go back and rm them later.

Re: undelete

Davide Depaoli — Thu, 03 May 2001 11:40:34 GMT

Another idea is to replace or aliasing the rm command with the mv.
For example, using the Lost&Found directory as a "trash" or mkdir trash directory.

cp /bin/rm /bin/rm.orig
vi /bin/rm
*begin of script*
/bin/mv $1 /trash_dir
*end of script*

Remeber where is (for file restore) and monitor disk space for trash directory

hope this helps
regards Davide

Re: undelete

Davide Depaoli — Thu, 03 May 2001 13:09:47 GMT

hoops.....mistake.......

mv /bin/rm /bin/rm.orig

Re: undelete

Chris Calabrese — Fri, 04 May 2001 18:19:51 GMT

Changing the system rm command doesn't seem like a really good idea. I think doing it as ksh alias in your own .profile might be a bit safer.

Also, the script should probably check if it's running interactively and just call rm if it's not.