[Gllug] Undelete...?

[Ian Norton]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:21:09PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:13:49PM -0000, Kristian Davies wrote:
> > mdk 7
> > 
> > I had a directory with a couple of files starting with "?blah"
> > So like a Burk I deleted them with "rm -fr ?*" ... Don't laugh!
> > 
> > Well anyway, in that directory was a script I use all the time, which I
> > would rather no rewrite.
> > 
> > Is there a way of getting my file back?
> > 
> > I realise this is a total newb question, but I find it hard to believe there
> > is no way of recovering a file which has not been overwritten.
> 
> There are various levels of protection you can use, by setting up
> command aliases. For example, as root, always have
> 
>   alias rm="rm -i"
>   alias mv="mv -i"
>   alias cp="cp -i"
> 
> Of course, since you supplied '-f' that wouldn't help.
> 
> So for even greater protection alias 'rm' to instead do a copy with
> backups:
> 
> function rm {
>   if [ ! -d ~/.trash ]; then
>     mkdir ~/.trash
>   fi
>   
>   mv --backup=numbered $@ ~/.trash
> }
> 
> So instead of deleteing the files, 'rm' now simply moves them
> to the trash directory, renaming any files already there with
> ever increasing numbered suffixing.
> 
> Or just use a GUI file manager like Nautilus instead of the shell.
> 
> For networked storage, the AFS filesystem can be configured to take
> a daily file system snapshot &make that available, at ~/.yesterday
> 
> Dan.

:-) i should read ahead before posting ;-)

Ian

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