Equivalent of recycle bin?
Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts. When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to comment out a call to rm -f that took a relative path and since the script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several files. Many of those are easily replaced but some were source files that have been modified the past months and the last backup was from july 23rd 2007. =/ I know I should robustify my script but I was wondering if there's an equivalent of the recycle bin I can use so I can easily restore files that were not supposed to be deleted? - Eric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Equivalent of recycle bin?
WARNING: This email contains SERIOUSLY dangerous advice. Don't try this at home kids, DaveK is a highly-trained^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H reckless nutter. On 28 January 2008 09:22, Eric Lilja wrote: Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts. When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to comment out a call to rm -f that took a relative path and since the script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several files. Many of those are easily replaced but some were source files that have been modified the past months and the last backup was from july 23rd 2007. =/ #include std_advice.h ;-) I know I should robustify my script but I was wondering if there's an equivalent of the recycle bin I can use so I can easily restore files that were not supposed to be deleted? Yep, sysinternals do a thing that patches into the low-level disk drivers and provides a system-wide recycle bin facility entirely independent of the Explorer shell recycle bin, it should run just fine underneath cygwin. looks Hmm, I can't seem to find it right now web.archive.org FUndelete. looks some more Nope, those microsoft scumbags have withdrawn it, presumably because it came with source code and they hate that, in fact they've entirely erased it from history, it is an un-software, there's not a mention of it anywhere on microsoft.com, not even a we have withdrawn this announcement. Gotta love that web archive :) http://web.archive.org/web/20060125011929/www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Funde lete.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060125011929/http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/Fu ndelete.exe http://web.archive.org/web/20060125011929/http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/Fu ndeleteSource.zip For those who prefer their URLs unwrapped: http://tinyurl.com/22zot8 [ homepage ] http://tinyurl.com/yrcs87 [ exe ] http://tinyurl.com/yqgmc6 [ sources! ] Now, the catch: This software is unsupported these days and may or may not work well on anything more recent than win2k. XP, 2k3 and Vista all introduce changes to the IFS (installable filesystem) device model, and it's possible that this code won't play happily with any/and/or/all of them. It's impossible to underestimate how dangerous playing with unverified disk filter drivers is, although the words AAAaRGHOMYGODWHEREDIDEVERYSINGLEFILEI'VEBEENWORKINGONFORTHEPASTTENYEARSSUDDEN LYDISAPPEARTO? should give you some feel for the scale of the potential dangers. YMMV, I have no knowledge of the situation, it's possible that everything will be fine, but I cannot recommend trying this software on any machine that you are not *completely* happy with the idea of wiping and reinstalling from scratch on. TAKE LOTS OF BACKUPS! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Equivalent of recycle bin?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Lilja wrote: | Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts. | When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to | comment out a call to rm -f that took a relative path and since the | script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several | files. Many of those are easily replaced but some were source files that | have been modified the past months and the last backup was from july | 23rd 2007. =/ | | I know I should robustify my script but I was wondering if there's an | equivalent of the recycle bin I can use so I can easily restore files | that were not supposed to be deleted? | | - Eric | | You can script a form of a recycle bin. The admin over on the NetBSD server that I login to did that. Basically what you would want to do is setup a special folder, alias a command to rm so the shell will use that instead of the real rm, and then setup the script to move the files instead of deleting them. Unfortunately the admin didn't put the script into public domain so I can't actually post it. Unfortunately I won't be of much help beyond this but I did want to just drop by and let you know it _can_ be done. - -- Robert Pendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thawte Web of Trust Notary CAcert Assurer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnfUKs1pR2j1qW+sRAj+vAJoChbPgDoIiNqXUXGQzfq//g6rHPgCeNbYJ rUqNwvtyg/pCSpjcG8oLdHQ= =YcqG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Equivalent of recycle bin?
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Brian Mathis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Eric Lilja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts. When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to comment out a call to rm -f that took a relative path and since the script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several files. Many of those are easily replaced but some were source files that have been modified the past months and the last backup was from july 23rd 2007. =/ I know I should robustify my script but I was wondering if there's an equivalent of the recycle bin I can use so I can easily restore files that were not supposed to be deleted? - Eric No, there is no recycle bin in Linux. Sorry. The best you can do is do a google for undelete linux and see if any of that helps you. You *may* be able to recover the files if you take a bit-for-bit image of the disk, then manually look through that X GB file for the disk clusters that contain some strings that you remember are in those scripts. Chances are that if you didn't shut down the server immediately after, the files are gone. Of course you know that you should always have backups, but most people need a catastrophe to really understand *how* important they are. Consider this your catastrophe. OK, so I'm on the cygwin mailing list and a linux mailing list. Guess which I thought I was reading? :) If you are on Windows Server or Vista, Volume Shadow Copy might help you get those back. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Equivalent of recycle bin?
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Eric Lilja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I messed up royally today when I was merging two bash scripts. When I was going to test if my argument handling worked I had forgot to comment out a call to rm -f that took a relative path and since the script wasn't executed where it was supposed to it removed several files. Many of those are easily replaced but some were source files that have been modified the past months and the last backup was from july 23rd 2007. =/ I know I should robustify my script but I was wondering if there's an equivalent of the recycle bin I can use so I can easily restore files that were not supposed to be deleted? - Eric No, there is no recycle bin in Linux. Sorry. The best you can do is do a google for undelete linux and see if any of that helps you. You *may* be able to recover the files if you take a bit-for-bit image of the disk, then manually look through that X GB file for the disk clusters that contain some strings that you remember are in those scripts. Chances are that if you didn't shut down the server immediately after, the files are gone. Of course you know that you should always have backups, but most people need a catastrophe to really understand *how* important they are. Consider this your catastrophe. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
