URGENT file recovery on RH Linux

[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?  I'm using RH Linux 8.0.  I 
guess the small consolation is that the intranet system (tiki) uses 
MySQL, so the data is still there.  However, I had many different sites 
and all kinds of stuff setup in the web directory, including 
Mnogosearch, phpMyAdmin, etc.

-- 
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".