Undeleting files

Have you ever accidentally deleted a file and wished you had a "Recycle Bin" like in Windows? Well now you can!

j2restore is an IBM DeveloperWorks project that offers a possibility to un-delete files:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixworld/entry/j2restore_restore_your_mistakenly_deleted_files_in_jfs2_file_system48?lang=en

or

wget https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixworld/resource/j2restorev1.51.zip --no-check-certificate

The only two small catches are that you have to register the tool and purchase a licence, and the filesystem has to be un-mounted during the recovery.

Installing:

unzip ./j2restorev1.51.zip

Archive:  ./j2restorev1.51.zip

  inflating: j2restorelist53

  inflating: j2restorelist61

  inflating: j2restoredemo53

  inflating: j2restoredemo61

chmod 0750 j*

Running the tool:

 

./j2restorelist61

j2restorelist v1.51, Author: Wu Jian Jun <wujianjun-zju@163.com>

Usage: j2restorelist [--fast | -f] [--partial | -p : no|yes|all] <file system>

To get full functional j2restore, pls send following machine ID to <wujianjun-zju@163.com>:

ODAwMDBFRUE4NjYwMDAwMTAwQzlCOEZBNEMwMDAwMDAwMDAwNGU4ZGY0ODA$ IBM,02659B......

umount /test

./j2restoredemo61 -r /test

output file: /var/j2restore/report.log

report only flag: on (just report, no restore action)

fast flag: off (block scan)

partial flag: no (only scan complete file)

Scaning directories...

100% finished

Scaning inodes...

 85.71% finished