Undelete for reiserfs? - I am so fired!

[Madison Kelly]

noah.gellner-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I was trying to untar a massive file containing *all* the backed up data. The
> drive it was on didn't have room so I mv'ed foo.tar to a different drive. Then
> disaster struck. Instead of typing tar -xvf foo.tar I typed tar -cvf foo.tar.
> This failed but first erased the backup. 
> 
> Can I recover from either location?

   First and foremost, shut down the drive.

   With that done, maybe. The data is at least partially still there 
though because a "new" file was written over it at least a small part is 
likely gone. I wish I could tell you a quick and easy way (and maybe 
someone else here can) but my DR experience is limited to accidental 
formats and physically dead drives. If you are really desperate, I had 
to deal with a DR company (I will have to dig up their name) that 
recovered an ext3 filesystem from a server whose hard drive physically 
failed on me for $1,700cnd. It wasn't cheap but we got everything back.

Madison

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