[vdr] Re: undelete on xfs?

[Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>]

Ingo Janetzki schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> as said in my previous mail some minutes ago, vdr killed nearly all
> of my video archive. The archive consists of 2 partitions with 160
> and 120 GB of space running on XFS. The partitions have not been
> written since the deletion of the files (but the computer has been
> powered off in the meantime).
> 
> So hte very important question: is there any tool or does anyone
> has some tips how to undelete my recordings ???
> 
> I saw in the xfs-faq on the SGI site, that there is no such tools.
> But is this still true (I don't know, how old this info is) ?

No, it's the same with ext3: because of the way these journalling
filesystems work, there is *no way* to undelete deleted files.

That's what backups are for (I know, backup media with such a capacity
cost $$$).

Cheers,
Juri



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