[Gllug] recover deleted files

[Jose Luis Martinez]

2008/11/30 t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk>:
> The problem with deleting files is that every so often you find you have deleted
> something previously that you now need !
> The 'windows' approach of not actually deleting but moving into a 'trash' folder
> is in many ways a good one; providing you periodically clean up the trash folder
>
> Due to people at work occasionally asking me to recover something they deleted
> 'last week sometime' on a multi-user 'nix system, I replaced the 'rm' command
> they would normally use with an alternative which works on a similar 'trash'
> directory basis.  In addition it will not overwrite a saved-file of the same
> name, so earlier deletedversions of the same file are still recoverable.
> It works on the basis of a separate trash directory for each mounted file
> system, to avoid the overhead of doing physical copying;  files are 'deleted'
> by simple renaming.    A cron job then runs every so often to physically
> deleted files from the trash directories that are over a certain number of days
> old.
>
> One should always of course have a series of backups in any event - something
> that one always does on systems at work but somehow often gets done rather
> infrequently on home systems!

Why don't you just get an appliance which has the ability to take snapshots?

That will achieve the same goal and you have got a chance to rein on
it (in an audited environment you would not be allowed to do what you
describe :-/ ).

I am not familiar enough with Linux offerings out of the box so to
speak, so somebody may want to clarify about this.

Regards

Jose.
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