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Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition

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Kenny McCormack wrote:

> Talk to your system administrator.  He should have access to this morning's
> backup tapes.
> 
For the first time in many years, I removed all my files. I.e., I did
this in my home directory:

rm -fr frammis *

instead of

rm -fr frammis*

About a week before I did that, my tape drive (a VXA-2) quit, and I
ordered a new one. It came in and I installed it two days before I
screwed up as above, so I had little difficulty restoring the files.

Now the question is: I have been using VXA drives since Ecrix started
making them. Then they were bought out by Exabyte, who have now been
bought out by Tandberg. Do you suppose people will be using tape for
backups in sufficient quantities that manufacturers will continue to
make the drives? So in another 7 years (that seems to be about how long
one of those drives lasts), I fear I will not be able to get a tape
drive like that anymore. I do not know the market research, but I assume
fewer and fewer people use tape for backups these days.

I infer that most people do not do backups at all, that some make
partial backups once in a while to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM disks. But I prefer
to do total backups, because whatever I leave out will be what I need to
restore.

Some people have hot swappable hard drives for backup, but that seems
expensive to me. I currently use 6 tapes for daily backups (Monday,
Tuesday...), 5 tapes for weekly backups (First Sunday, Second...), and
12 tapes for monthly backups (January, ...). Now 23 hot swappable hard
drives would be too expensive, and they would not fit in my safe deposit
box. So what do people who take backups seriously propose to do going
forward.

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How to undelete files on a ext4 partition lucie <lucie3d@gmail.com> - 2011-07-05 05:07 -0700
  Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-07-05 12:22 +0000
    Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2011-07-05 09:24 -0400
      Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-07-05 09:10 -0500
      Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2011-07-05 16:47 +0200
        Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-07-05 10:29 -0500
          Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2011-07-05 22:01 +0200
            Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-07-05 16:35 -0500
            Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-07-06 01:21 +0000
              Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-07-06 06:46 -0500
                Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-07-06 12:09 +0000
                Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-07-06 09:03 -0500
      Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-06 07:51 +0000
  Re: How to undelete files on a ext4 partition John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2011-07-05 17:19 -0700

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