Hi David, On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0100, David Brown wrote: > To cut a long story short, I’ve been having the server admin day from hell, > My server host did some routine maintenance last night, My server didn’t > shut down cleanly.. The network card wouldn’t come back, <snip> I > reinstalled the OS using their ‘rescue’ system but desperately need to get > to files that were there on the server before the OS reinstall...
It's extremely unlikely that anything remains. Your reinstall will have written over the data. You could try reading the raw disk device and searching for known text strings. > I don’t know if this is possible but if anyone thinks it might be please let > me know.. I had a /backups directory which i’d chew my arm off to be able > to restore.... I recommend offsite backup with rsnapshot, rdiff-backup or backuppc. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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