rsync and deleted files

[Ryan Rix]

Photorec and luck.

Nathan England wrote:
> 
> 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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