Re: [Extundelete-users] Is there any chance extundelete can work with a system that has rebooted?

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Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012 schrieb ext...@li...:

> There is another program based on extundelete called ext4magic. It is not
>  in the Debian repositories and was not available on a live CD. Do you
>  think it is worth a shot or am I just out of luck? My backups were out of
>  date and there was a lot of unique data on the partition. Restoring
>  everything to a big pile of unnamed piles with photorec might salvage a
>  few photos, but would be wildly time consuming and frustrating.
> 
Try ext4magic, there a lot of exceptions and special cases of file system data 
considered, which not dominates by extundelete.

Packages for some RPM based distributions here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/robi-1
or OpenSuse (12.1), Arch and Gentoo.
For all Debian based, there are no ready packages.

for a ext3 filesystem use ext4magic-0.2.4 
for ext4 use ext4magic-0.3.1 

for your problem you need a command line like this:

ext4magic /dev/sda3 -m -a 1330042429 -d /home/recoverdir

"-a 1330042429" is a time stamp immediately before deletion.

If your system has a 64bit CPU, you can also use the following image for a USB 
stick. This contains ext4magic and an experimental frontend for ext4magic.
http://susestudio.com/a/QkjQ7n/ext4magic-rescue-tui
http://openfacts2.berlios.de/wikien/index.php/BerliosProject:Ext4magic-e4m-tui

Use the "Multi-stage Mode"

robi