[vox-tech] Recovering data

Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:54:54 -0800

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Hey,

I have a problem where I seem to have lost around 10GB of data from a backup of a PC I have.  The file was not rm'd.  I suspect that the program that wrote it trashed it(I admit Im not totally sure.)  What happened was I ran a backup under XP to a netdrive that resides on my linux system.  I verfied the data was there and was usable(by doing a small restore.)  However, after I rebuilt the machine, that same backup file went from about 10GB down to 20KB.  Since I have not written that kinda data to the disk, I suspect that my data is still there, however using debugfs(the trick to getting info back I know) did not work.  Does anyone know of any other way to get at that information?  

Thanks in advance, 

Mike

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a problem where I seem to have lost around 
10GB of data from a backup of a PC I have.&nbsp; The file was not rm'd.&nbsp; I 
suspect that the program that wrote it trashed it(I admit Im not totally 
sure.)&nbsp; What happened was I ran a backup under XP to a netdrive that 
resides on my linux system.&nbsp; I verfied the data was there and was usable(by 
doing a small restore.)&nbsp; However, after I rebuilt the machine, that same 
backup file went from about 10GB down to 20KB.&nbsp; Since I have not written 
that kinda data to the disk, I suspect that my data is still there, however 
using debugfs(the trick to getting info back I know) did not work.&nbsp; Does 
anyone know of any other way to get at that information?&nbsp; </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV>
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