[BackupPC-users] Scripting Help Needed

[Carl K. <ck...@ea...>]

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to retrieve some deleted files from a BackUpPC backup.  The
backup was deleted, but not much has been written to the drive since the
backup.  This is an ext3 file system, so I'm forced to use the grep an
unmounted drive method of retrieval.

Does anyone know a way to have grep return everything between two retrived
strings?  Like everything between "tuxpaint" and "end".  I'm trying to
retrieve PNG files.  Can you describe to me the tools and syntaxes I'd
need to employ to accomplish such a feat?  I'm familiar with the command
line, I've gotten grep to return some interesting results and I know about
piping commands, but I can't quite figure out the steps to extract these
pngs from the raw hard drive.

Thanks a lot for any suggestions,

ck