Lost File Recovery

So you've deleted an important file(s), or perhaps been broken into and have your file system smashed by a vindictive system cracker, or some other disaster has struck. You need that file back, but Unix has no way to recover lost data that hasn't been backed up. You hunt around for help, answers, anything, and perhaps run across this software or had heard about it in the back of your mind.

To begin with, your data is *possibly* still out there somewhere - TCT cannot help you if the data wasn't saved to disk first, however, and it will take some time to hunt for data.

The following are problems for data recovery:

• you do not have root privileges on the machine
• you're inexperienced with Unix
• you're in a hurry
• the file is anything but small (say, greater than 15-20K). It's still possible to recover larger files, but can be a lot more difficult.

If you've lost email - especially a lot of it - you might look at the "rip-mail" program in the "lazarus/post-processing" subdir.