[NTLUG:Discuss] need to recover deleted files ( and more )

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 10:19, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Ask your sysadmin about backups.  He does do backups on a regular basis, 
> right?  If not, then its almost impossible to recover deleted files on 
> *nix file systems.  It's a security issue.
> 
> ...Ken

There are a coople of programs out there for linux ext2 file systems, 
that have a chance of working if your quick. Not something you want
to have to rely on. 

Besides system backups ( the other day we discovered that our 
MIS department 'thought' that they were backing up our server 
but they were not. We needed something that was deleted and 
they discovered that they were not doing what they told us that
they were doing ) I use a cron job that tars up my source area
on my web server, and SCPs each days tar file to a remote server. 
I have a file for each day that is replaced each day execpt for
the 'sunday' copy that I keep. So I have weekley backups that are 
permant and daily backups that last a week. 

jack