<div dir="ltr"><div><div>dd if=/dev/sda2 | gzip > /mnt/external/mydrive.img.gz<br><br></div>Or my pref:<br></div><div>apt-get install pv<br></div>pv -peat -B 10240 /dev/sda2 | gzip > /mnt/external/mydrive.img.gz<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Matt Minuti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.minuti@gmail.com" target="_blank">matt.minuti@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I did the same thing for the first time last spring and actually managed to save everything! Spinning platter, ext4. Here's the process I used, for everyone's future reference. Hopefully it helps, good luck!<br><br><br><br></div>First thing I did was boot up a live usb and dd the partition to an image on an external hard drive (good practice to not mess with the original any more than necessary). `dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/mnt/external/mydrive.img`<br><br>Next I used ext4magic (<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext4magic/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext4magic/</a> with usage scenarios stuff at <a href="http://ext4magic.sourceforge.net/howto_en.html" target="_blank">http://ext4magic.sourceforge.net/howto_en.html</a>), which is based on ext4undelete but seemed better to me, probably because you can easily recover only files deleted within a certain timeframe, so you don't have a ton of junk dredged up.<br><br></div>Example:<br></div>Files deleted roughly 2 days ago, recovering everything after 3 days ago and before 1 day ago, recovering from the backup image.<br></div>ext4magic -R -a $(date -d "-3day" +%s) -b $(date -d "-1day" +%s) -d /mnt/external/recovered_files_here/ /mnt/external/mydrive.img<br><br></div>Afterwards, I used fslint to search for duplicates and help me figure out which copy of the file to keep. Partly because fslint is really awesome, partly because I was really low on space at this point...<br><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Susan Cragin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:susancragin@earthlink.net" target="_blank">susancragin@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
It is an ssd but I'm going to try. What the heck. My favorite files are a cluster of small txt and org files. And I haven't used the machine since then.<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
>From: Joshua Judson Rosen <<a href="mailto:rozzin@hackerposse.com" target="_blank">rozzin@hackerposse.com</a>><br>
>Sent: Feb 16, 2016 9:31 AM<br>
>To: Susan Cragin <<a href="mailto:susancragin@earthlink.net" target="_blank">susancragin@earthlink.net</a>>, GNHLUG-discussion <<a href="mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org" target="_blank">gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org</a>><br>
>Subject: Re: Data recovery<br>
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>On 02/16/2016 09:22 AM, Susan Cragin wrote:<br>
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>> I recursively deleted my home folder, "susan."<br>
>> I have days-old backup but want to try data recovery.<br>
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>Is this on a spinning-platter HDD, or on one of those<br>
>new-fangled SSDs?<br>
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>As far as I understand it, you're unlikely to be able<br>
>to recover any data from an SSD as they're so aggressive<br>
>about remapping logical/physical blocks.<br>
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>"Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."<br>
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