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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Undo delete Post 60433 by zazzybob on Monday 17th of January 2005 08:05:45 AM
Old 01-17-2005
Under UNIX, if files are removed there is generally no way of undeleting them - your only choice is to restore from a backup.

Under some circumstances if the disk can be brought immediately offline after the deletion and mounted read-only, a data-recovery company/expert may be able to recover some of the data - however seeing as this is a managed server which is probably using some kind of RAID, the areas of the disk(s) that held this information before will no doubt have been written to.

Cheers
ZB
 

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VIRECOVER(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      VIRECOVER(8)

NAME
virecover -- report recovered vi edit sessions SYNOPSIS
/usr/libexec/virecover DESCRIPTION
The virecover utility sends emails to users who have vi(1) recovery files. This email gives the name of the file that was saved for recovery and instructions for recovering most, if not all, of the changes to the file. This is done by using the -r option with vi(1). See the -r option in vi(1) for details. If the backup files have the execute bit set or are zero length, then they have not been modified, so virecover deletes them to clean up. virecover also removes recovery files that are corrupted, zero length, or do not have a corresponding backup file. virecover is normally run automatically at boot time using /etc/rc.d/virecover. FILES
/var/tmp/vi.recover/recover.* vi(1) recovery files /var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.* vi(1) editor backup files SEE ALSO
vi(1), rc.conf(5) HISTORY
This script, previously known as recover.script, is from nvi and was added to NetBSD in 1996. It was renamed in 2001. AUTHORS
This man page was written by Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>. BSD
October 9, 2006 BSD
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