"Burnes, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> dd it, loop it, fsck it.
> That won't help you if a circuit board, spindle, read head or other
> mechanism fails.

Sure, but that is not a simple case of bad blocks;)

> Then you better hope the data wasn't *that* valuable or you know
> good platter recovery shop.

We got IBAS in Norway; the price for an evaluation is close to a
handful of gold.

> Backups are cheap.  Recovery is very expensive.

Sure, but your not factoring in murphys law here. A tool to undelete
would come many people in handy who even got proper backup solutions.

Besides, a recovery is not the same as a feature to undelete. Such a
feature would maybe save a days work, which is a lot in some circles.

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