rsync and deleted files

[Matt Graham]

From: GK <gm5729 at gmail.com>
> Try ddrescue since the partition wasn't journalized you have a
> higher margin of success in recovering it.

What?  ddrescue is for getting around problems with failing hardware,
not for undeleting files on an ext2fs.  It won't help with the OP's
problem unless they've significantly changed the project's goals in
the last few years.

There are plenty of things about undeleting files on an ext2fs, but
the top Google hit is from 2002 and contains a link to an "undelete"
tool.  It might work.  If you have enough disk space, just dd the
hosed disk to a file somewhere and try whatever undelete tool you
like on that file.  That way, if the tool fails miserably, you can
start over with a different tool (or different parameters) and see
if that works better.

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