how do I recover a deleted file

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How to recover a deleted file ???

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

Recover a backup. There is no undelete available on unix. Could you specify the file deleted?

Gideon

[Franky_1]

Hi,

if you don't have a backup i'm afraid you've lost that file, because there's no recovery option for deleted files in unix

Regards

Franky

[Hoefnix]

Hi,

If it's very importend and you do not have a backup to recover! There is one other site to look at:
http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html#features
http://www.fish.com/tct/help-recovering-file
Have a look at "unrm"
It's a toolkit used for forensic computing and made by 2 smart people:
Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema
Text from the website:
The quick version is this:

Use "unrm" to recover the data, from the file system with
the lost file, to another file system; run lazarus, and
comb through the results until you find your data.


HTH,
Peter

[Muthukumar_5]

We can not recover deleted file. If you want to recover or store from now then do as like,

When ever you remove file then, move that file into some storage area. After some period delete that file.

mkdir /var/adm/recyclebin

Move the files over there by making move instead rm command when calling rm there.

[R. Sri Ram Kishore_1]

Hi,

Take a look at these threads (same topic has been discussed there):
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=66836
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=61612

HTH.

Regards,
Sri Ram

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

Boss
In unix if u delete the file you won't be able to get it back unless you have back of the file.Right now you no option other than restoring the required files from the backup.

As muthu told if u want to delete a file instead of deleting it move a directory and keep.

regards
SK

[Matthew Hollier]

If you issue a command in unix, it will usually attempt to do it without questioning whether you really want to. This can be a good feature and a bad feature!

You can make the rm command a little more "novice friendly" by using the -i option and it will then ask whether you definately want to remove the file.

For example.
rm -i test
test: ? (y/n) y

[Simon Hargrave]

adding to this, you can also "novice friendly" it more by creating a shell alias. In your .profile: -

alias rm="rm -i"

This will force "rm -i"

You can still override this alias by using: -

rm -f

but at least you'll know it WILL delete all your files ;)