Re: [Xen-users] HELP PLEASE !! How to Recover deleted img file?

[Jim <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henning Sprang wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Radu Stanescu <radukn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hy today I accidentaly delete the img file of one of my domU. The 
> > guest is
> > still up and running.
> Interesting, can you even login, and the system still works?
> Then Xen is saving the file from being deleted totally until the vm is
> shut down. After that, it will probably free the open file, and it
> will be gone.
>
> So don't stop the vm, and do a full rsync backup ASAP.
>
> > How can i recover the img file from which it was
> > loaded?
> > I tried lsof but i don't see any open file by xen regarding my domU
> This is a generic linux problem and has nothing to do with Xen.
>
> I think, if you once stop the vm and have not done an rsaync backup as
> said above, you have  not much chances, but at very first, you should
> stop the machine completely and not use the harddisk where the lost
> image resided.
>
> Go to linux recovery mailing lists and read about that.
>
> As far as I know, when you don't use special techniques in advance,
> (there is some libraray that makes rm not really delete stuff, AFAIK,
> and for sure we all have backups, at least _after_ we lost important
> data the first time, right?!), it's absolitely not easy to recover
> lost files.
>
> Heninng
>
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This site may be of some help.

http://e2undel.sourceforge.net/recovery-howto.html


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