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#### By James T. Dennis, linux-questions-only@ssc.com
Starshine Technical Services, http://www.starshine.org/

### Accidental Deletion

From cly on Mon, 25 Jan 1999

Hi! I used: `gzip -cr * > file.gz`

Then I deleted the source... Now I have a file.gz, but how can I get back the files and the directory structure?

Cly

> Basically there is no way (short of deep magic with a hex editor --- which is beyond my current skills(*)).

> - (I used to do data recovery for the Peter Norton Group using DiskEdit on MS-DOS/FAT filesystems. However, I've never developed those skills on ext2 filesystems and the available interactive tools don't seem to be as advanced as the versions of MUSE and DE that I used to use).

> So, I'd say that you'll have to use your most recent backups or recreate the files from scratch. Certainly you can look at the "Ext2fs Undeletion mini-HOWTO" at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html for some suggestions.

##### Copyright © 1999, James T. Dennis
Published in The Linux Gazette Issue 37 February 1999

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