Hi Folks, Before I give up on this I thought I'd ask a more refined question for some help with my problem.
I waited one day too long to restore some files from backup. When I went to do it the oldest backup was 335 and the files I needed were in 334. These are PNG files, not simple text files on an EXT3 filesystem. Dan, from this list, suggested a program that would work on EXT2, but my understanding is that EXT3 zero's out the inodes when it deletes stuff. So, my research showed that I needed to take the drive off line and grep for some text that is in each file on the bare /dev/hda device. I'm assuming what I will wind up with is a huge file of the raw text surrounding the key phrase that I search for. Looking inside a PNG file, it shows that each file starts with "PNG" so this gives me some hope. But will this work if the files are compressed via backuppc and in a pool? Plus, experimental grepping that I've done showed that I couldn't even find the word "PNG" in a known PNG file on a different server, so I don't think I have my regular expression syntax together. I feel like I'm not smart enough to figure this out. Can someone suggest an algorithm for retrieving deleted, compressed, pooled PNG (binary) files from an EXT3 filesystem and then restoring them? I don't know how to search through compressed data or how to restore them once I've successfully grepped them. Or how to successfully grep them in the first place. These files have a ton of sentimental value, they're my kid's art work over the course of a couple years, or else I'd just give up. I've taken my backuppc server offline (to avoid more overwrites of the data) until I either figure this out, or give up. Thanks for any further suggestions. ck ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
