Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Matt Harrison wrote: I know this may have been discussed before but my google-fu hasn't turned up anything directly related. My girlfriend had some files stored in a zfs dataset on my home server. She assured me that she didn't need them any more so I destroyed the dataset (I know I should ha

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Simon Breden wrote: Hi Matt! As kim0 says, that s/w PhotoRec looks like it might work, if it can work with ZFS... would be interested to hear if it works. Good luck, Simon I'll give it a go as soon as I get a chance. I've had a very quick look and ZFS isn't in the list of supported FSs...bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Simon Breden
Hi Matt! As kim0 says, that s/w PhotoRec looks like it might work, if it can work with ZFS... would be interested to hear if it works. Good luck, Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.or

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Ahmed Kamal
> > It's worth a try although like you i'll have to bow to the gurus on the > list. It's not the end of the world if she can't get it back, but if anyone > does know of a method like this, I'd love to know, for future reference as > much as anything. > Perhaps you're looking for http://www.cgsecur

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
Simon Breden wrote: Yep, normally you can't get the data back, especially if new files have been written to the drives AND the files were written over the old ones. You have a slight chance, or big chance, depending on how many files have been written since deletion of files, and if ZFS tries

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Simon Breden
Yep, normally you can't get the data back, especially if new files have been written to the drives AND the files were written over the old ones. You have a slight chance, or big chance, depending on how many files have been written since deletion of files, and if ZFS tries to use space that was

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:42:23 +0100 Matt Harrison wrote: She's now desperate to get it back as she's realised there some important work stuff hidden away in there. Without snapshots you're lost. Ok, thanks. It was worth a shot. Guess she'll be working overtime tonigh

Re: [zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:42:23 +0100 Matt Harrison wrote: > She's now desperate to get it back as she's realised there some > important work stuff hidden away in there. Without snapshots you're lost. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | nevada / OpenSolaris 2009.0

[zfs-discuss] recovering fs's

2009-06-22 Thread Matt Harrison
I know this may have been discussed before but my google-fu hasn't turned up anything directly related. My girlfriend had some files stored in a zfs dataset on my home server. She assured me that she didn't need them any more so I destroyed the dataset (I know I should have kept it anyway for