topic How to recovey directory which has been removed in Operating System - HP-UX

How to recovey directory which has been removed

Hudson Hua — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:28:10 GMT

Hi,
I've removed a directory with "rm -rf" with careless , now I want to recove the directory. Who can help me?

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

Robert Gezelter — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:34:51 GMT

Hudson,

Perhaps you are using an operating system other than OpenVMS.

HP/UX or Linux, perhaps?

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

Pete Randall — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:36:36 GMT

Easy enough. Just get out your backup tapes (you do have backups, don't you?) and restore from them. Otherwise you're out of luck.

Pete

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:41:59 GMT

Hi:

You are out-of-luck. UNIX does exactly what you tell it. You can recreate directories with 'mkdir' but you need to recover their contents from your last backup(s).

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:44:47 GMT

Sorry, but HP-UX has NO CONCEPT of a "trash can" like some other operating system you may be used to.

If you have a backup, you will need to restore. If you don't, you are pretty much out of luck.

If you are desperate you could power down the system, remove the disks and send them to a data recovery company. They could attempt to recover your data for you and send it back on CDs or DVDs. This is quite an expensive proposition though.

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

Avinash20 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:59:40 GMT

You have run a very destructive command.. Always use -i (interactive), in case of using these command.

You need to restore from backup.

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Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

Arturo Galbiati — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:38:45 GMT

Hi,
restore it from backup.
Rgds,
Art

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

Md. Farhan A Azam — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:21:54 GMT

you can restore from backup, if you have good known backup of removed directory.

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

V. Nyga — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:45:50 GMT

Hi,

... or, if you/a collegue have a similar ws, you can try to restore it from there.
tar the directory at the good ws and tranfer/copy it to the bad one.

HTH
Volkmar

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

Hudson Hua — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:05:59 GMT

Thank you very much, I didn't backup them before. Now I reinstall the application and learn a lesson.

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

V. Nyga — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:36:34 GMT

Ok - please close the thread and use the points assignment feature of this forum:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

I hope we can help you the next time
Volkmar

Re: How to recovey directory which has been removed

Hudson Hua — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:14:06 GMT

This problem has been resolved in another way.