rsync and deleted files

[Bob Elzer]

Sorry about your files, I'll point out one mistake you did, that I see so
often.

A lot of people seem to backup to the same tape/disk/media every time they
do a backup.

I always ask them, what happens if in the middle of that backup, you system
dies. You are now left with a dead system and an incomplete backup, you just
overwrote you good backup killing it when the system died.

You should always rotate your backup media, just so this kind of thing
doesn't happen.

I know it doesn't help now, but I'm sure you'll never let it happen again.


One thought about your lost data, is it possible you forgot to mount your
USB drive, so could you backups have gone into   /media/320GB/naubrey/  on
the original drive ???  Hopefully.



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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Nathan
England
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 7:34 PM
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Subject: rsync and deleted files


I plugged my USB drive into my system, ran my backup script and went to
supper. My backup script contains

rsync -avz --delete-after /home/naubrey/ /media/320GB/naubrey/


Usually, it works great. Problem is my /home/naubrey/ directory on my system
was EMPTY and it wiped out my backup!!!!

I just wiped my work laptop and reinstalled, but I had not copied my user
directory stuff back because I needed to make some additional changes. I
made the changes and wanted to back up the changes, forgetting my user
directory was included in my all_inclusive backup script...

The USB drive is ext2 and when I came back I immediately unmounted and
mounted ro.

This is a typical user directory with 60GB of text files, abiword files,
kword files, OpenOffice files, mp3, ogg, about 100 avi dvds, and thousands
of notes... Some files were only 2 k others were over 1GB.

As I have never attempted recovery of deleted files because I am (99% of the
time) very vigilante about my backups. I design backup systems for
customers!!!! ha ha

What utilities or programs are there that might automate this as I really
don't care to sit and tell the system to recover this inode, and yes, this
inode, and again y to this inode as there are well over 200,000 files.

Thanks for any help, insights, condolences!!!

nathan

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