File Recovery

[O. Sinclair]

Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> i accidentally excluded a wanted directory from my monthly backup, and
> from all the times that i needed to use the backup for a recovery
> yesterday, with this incomplete backup, and i didn't notice that the
> diectory wasn't backed up until after i deleted the whole system and
> restored from the backup, so basically i ended up with around 4 GiB of
> downloaded data missing!
> 
> i use ext3 filesystem, and have seperate /usr /var /home /boot
> partitions, leaving the rest of the root partition almost empty, that's
> why i chose /sharedstuff as a common place for downloading and sharing
> stuff on samba.
> 
> what are my chances of recoveringsome of these files? and what programs
> can i use?
> 
> this directory contained many small files that i don't care about, but
> 2huge files (dvd images being downloaded with utorrent and pre
> allocated, these 2 are what i care about most
> 
> 
Linux Magazine had an article about file recovery in a recent issue, go 
to their website
http://www.linux-magazine.com/
and search there. Good luck, I am afraid you are in for a tough time.

Sinclair