rsync and deleted files

[Stephen]

its a set of pay software but very very good, r-studio.com

good luck in whatever app you go with.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> 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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