file recovery - urgent
Hello,
Please excuse this is not strictly debian or laptop related,
but i'm in urgent trouble.
I accidently deleted a folder with 3500 files on my laptop,
just when i wanted to do a really overdue backup.
It's about 5 GB, nearly 3 months of work, and the last
backup is a month ago where most of the stuff was added
just recently, including hundreds of hours of the working time.
When i realized what happened i shutdown the laptop.
The files are in the user's home on the root filesystem,
a journaling ext3. debian sid.
I was so shocked i didn't look for the exact time, but i
think i could boil it down to a 10 minute time frame.
I've no experience with file recovery.
I would be able to boot into a cd or dvd which i could
download and burn on another machine.
I'm aware a time based recovery could mean i'd have to reinstall
the KDE session and do more cleanup afterward, but that's
absolutely unimportant, if i only could recover the files.
It would be worth a complete reinstall.
Any good idea what i can do ?
micha
ps. And no, nothing in the trash folder, it was a real delete.
pps. And yes, i will never again be lazy with backups.
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