URGENT how to undelete, recover files

[Greg Rundlett]

OK, so it finally caught up with me.  I have heard the addage about how once 
you experience a loss of your files, you'll appreciate the value of a sound 
backup strategy.  Well, I have been too busy to implement that backup 
strategy, so here I am in URGENT need of help.

I wanted to rsync a website from one server (dev box) to another (intranet 
box).  So, I issued a rsync -vrultz --delete /this/path/ me at otherhost:/that  
which operated one directory lower than I wanted to on the destination 
machine.  The delete option was meant to remove any obsolete files in the 
website I was copying.  The unintended side-effect was that everything (all 
websites) on the destination machine were wiped out.

Is there any way to recover these files?  Does it take a specialist with 
data recovery tools to examine the media?

-- 
Greg Rundlett

Chief Technical Officer
Knowledge Institute
creators of BUZGate, the Business Utility Zone Gateway
www.buzgate.org

fortune:

"One Architecture, One OS" also translates as "One Egg, One Basket".