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How did she delete them - from Explorer, a program, or ?   Not sure if it matters, but is your drive mapped to a letter on the PC from which she deleted the images?

I would have assumed that if you were deleting from a program that it would invoke the Windows Trash Can, but it appears that I may assume too much.  I do my own backups of all files on my NAS drives to a USB drive (so I can take a copy to work to safeguard it in the even of a robbery or house fire) but I'd sure like to know as well how this works, and why files on NAS drives wouldn't be covered by the same protections that files on "normal" drives are...does this same limitation apply to USB drives as well, I wonder?

Last edited by DNS-323 Talker (2007-05-22 01:29:03)

arnljot wrote:

Hi,

My gf deleted some of her precious files on the nas, and alas... There isn't any clear way to undelete.  The WinXP waste bin is empty, sems like network disks are left to cater for themselfs.

I've been looking into this and it seems I have two options:
1. Leave it at that, shrug and say: Too bad, files shouldn't be deleted.
or
2. Take this howto to heart, and get at it. The howto

Now, if I venture down the howto-lane. Here are some things to ponder.

1. Enabling telnet and setting up the funplug script, how much chance is it that just that will fubar the recently deleted files?
2. Will I have access to the command 'debugfs'?
3. Is my memory failing me, or is it not ext2 in firmware 1.03 which I'm using with my mirror raid config of two 500GB disks (about 7GB available space)

I hope you fine gents can answere these questions so that I know if I'm ventureing down a path that is not blocked ;-P

Cheerio!

Based on the questions you're asking I want to believe that how to is over your head.

But - if the data is of sufficient value, you fancy yourself her knight in shining armour and you're willing to take a shot at it - here's how  Iwould approach it, and let me make it clear I'm no linux guru.

Start by shutting down the NAS, do not write any files to it, do not try to install the fun_plug or any other libraries.  Do not do anything that wries to the disks.

Remove both disks, store one in a safe place - this is your "fall back" disk.
Download the "linux live" distro of your choice and create the CD.
Install the remaining disk, the "working" disk from the NAS in a PC and boot from the linux live CD, typically the linux live environments will not let you write to the hard drive unless you specifically choose to do so, learn how to use the undelete tools, and when you're comfortable with them, if you have not been able to undelete the files on the disk you are working from, get the other disk, the fall back disk, and image it to the "working" disk and take another shot at it.

And to both you and the other gentleman who had files deleted - backup is the solution - backup, Backup, BACKUP