Recover files

[Aaron Wrasman <awrasman@enchanted.net>]

I've done some research already and I hope someone will have a better
answer than I currently have so far.

The situation:
	I misconfigured samba to point at /home/accountname for roaming
	profiles.

	It has been this way for over a year.

	No one noticed. I'm the only person that uses linux directly.

	To troubleshoot a problem on a Windows 98 box, I logged in as
	myself on the win98 box.

	It built me a profile and pushed it too the Linux box. It
	seemed to be taking a really log time but it finally finished.

	Fixed the problems on the windows box.

	Later when I go to use my account on the linux things are all
	messed up.

	First thing I notice, all my mail files are gone. ( 7 years
	worth.)

	Then I notice alot directories I haven't used in years were
	updated today at about the same time.

	I finally do a 
	
	find /home/accountname -type f -print

	less than 100 files come back. Almost all of them are dot-files.

	I figure umount the filesystem and run debugfs and recover the
	files. (i.e. lsdel)

	Second problem. No deleted inodes exist after April 22, 2002.

	I moved everything over to ext3 about that time.

	Checking web pages. It appears you can't use the lsdel
	command in debugsfs to find deleted files.

Current Answer:

	Find every "free" inode on at 27 Gig partition and look for
	strings that I know should be in particular files. Then try to
	reconstruct the files by hand.


Does anyone have better ideas? And no, I don't have a recent backup.
Last time I changed the hardware I never got the tape drive reconnected 
to the system. So last backup is over 9 months ago. At the time I wasn't
concerned, the old system had been on raid and the new one was also.


So any ideas?


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