Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla deleted all files on the target partition - Data lost.

[Jay M. <jay...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Simon Loewen <si...@si...> wrote:
> Dear all Clonezilla users,
>
>        Today, I used Clonezilla for the first time.  As a test I decided to
> see how it worked.  I used the 'clone partition to an image' option ( I
> cannot remember the exact terminology).
>
> Clonezilla asked me where it could write the TARGET images to.  I
> instructed it to use my USB *BACKUP* disc under the directory /,
> expecting it to write a file into it.
>
> No, it deleted everything and wrote this onto the disc partition:
> # ls -l /media/1.2.2-26/
> total 25
> -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root   107 2009-07-20 03:38 Clonezilla-Live-Version
> -r--r--r-- 1 sloewent root 17982 2009-07-19 02:50 COPYING
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 isolinux
> dr-xr-xr-x 2 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 live
> dr-xr-xr-x 5 sloewent root  2048 2009-07-20 03:38 utils
>
> As a result, I have lost all my backups, including all my work related
> to music that I have had since 2001.  All files. Everything. Yes, this
> does equate to a heavy financial loss.  Yes, I cannot reproduce the
> data.  Yes, I lost the invoices that I had to keep for tax purposes
> thatI have to produce some time next year.
>
>
> * Does anyone know of any tools that can recover lost files?  The
> filesystem type is ext3. *

Hope this message gets to you in time: here's a nice tutorial on
recovering deleted files in Linux:

http://www.linuxforu.com/how-to/recovering-deleted-files-easily/

I found this tutorial very good and so made an .ODT (OO.org Writer)
file of the same; let me know if you would like me to email it to you.

Jay

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