How to recover deleted files in Linux?

How to recover deleted files in Linux? The following article will introduce to you how to recover deleted files in Linux. It has certain reference value. Friends in need can refer to it. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.

Linux does not have a recycle bin like Windows. Basically, files cannot be retrieved usingrm -rf *.

Then the question is:

For files accidentally deleted under Linux, are we really unable to recover them through software?

The answer is of course no. Deleted files can still be recovered through software. Restoration of accidentally deleted files can be divided into two situations:

• One is that deletion information exists in the process after deletion

• The other is deletion In the future, the process cannot be found and can only be restored with the help of tools.

Next, we will use examples to explain two different recovery methods of accidental deletion:

The situation when the process of accidentally deleting a file is still there:

This usually means that an active process has continuous standard input or output. After the file is deleted, the process PID still exists. This is also the reason why some servers delete some files but the disk is not released.

Open a terminal and perform cat append operation on a test file:

[root@docking ~]# echo "This is DeleteFile test." > deletefile.txt [root@docking ~]# ls deletefile.txt [root@docking ~]# cat >> deletefile.txt Add SomeLine into deletefile for fun.

Open another terminal to view the file and you can clearly see the content:

[root@docking ~]# ls deletefile.txt [root@docking ~]# cat deletefile.txt This is DeleteFile test. Add SomeLine into deletefile for fun.

At this time, delete the filerm -f deletefile.txt

[root@docking ~]# rm -f deletefile.txt [root@docking ~]# ls #命令查看这个目录，文件已经不存在了，那么现在我们将其恢复出来。

• lsof checks whether the deleted file process still exists.

• If it is not installed, pleaseyum install lsoforapt-get install lsof

1. In a similar situation, we can first check with lsof whether the deleted file is still there

[root@docking ~]# lsof | grep deletefile cat 21796 root 1w REG 253,1 63 138860 /root/deletefile.txt (deleted)

2. Recoverycp /proc/pid/fd/1 /specified directory/file name

Enter the process directory, usually /proc/pid/fd/, for the current situation:

[root@docking ~]# cd /proc/21796/fd [root@docking fd]# ll 总用量 0 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 1月 18 22:21 0 -> /dev/pts/0 l-wx------ 1 root root 64 1月 18 22:21 1 -> /root/deletefile.txt (deleted) lrwx------ 1 root root 64 1月 18 22:21 2 -> /dev/pts/0

Recovery operation:

[root@docking fd]# cp 1 ~/deletefile.txt.backup [root@docking fd]# cat ~/deletefile.txt.backup This is DeleteFile test. Add SomeLine into deletefile for fun.

3. Recovery is completed.

The accidentally deleted file process no longer exists, use the tool to restore it

Prepare some file directories

#准备一份挂载的盘 mkdir backuptest cd backuptest mkdir deletetest mkdir deletetest/innerfolder echo "Delete a folder test." > deletetest/innerfolder/deletefile.txt echo "tcpdump:x:172:72::/:/sbin/nologin" > tmppasswd

The finally prepared directory structure is as follows:

taroballs@taroballs-PC:/media/taroballs/taroballs/backuptest$ cd .. taroballs@taroballs-PC:/media/taroballs/taroballs$ tree backuptest/ backuptest/ ├── deletetest │ └── innerfolder │ └── deletefile.txt └── tmppasswd 2 directories, 2 files

Now start deleting the directoryrm -rf backuptest/

taroballs@taroballs-PC:/media/taroballs/taroballs$ rm -rf backuptest/ taroballs@taroballs-PC:/media/taroballs/taroballs$ ls -l 总用量 0

In this case, there is usually no daemon or background process continues to input it, so the deletion is really deleted. lsof can't see it either, so you need to use tools to restore it.

Now start recovering accidentally deleted files.

The tool we use is extundelete third-party tool. The recovery steps and precautions are as follows:

• Stop doing any operations on the current partition to prevent the inode from being overwritten. If the inode is overwritten, it will basically be restored.

• To exaggerate, for example, stop the service of the partition where it is located, uninstall the device where the directory is located, and disconnect the network if necessary.

• Use the dd command to back up the current partition to prevent data loss caused by third-party software recovery failure.

• Suitable for situations where the data is very important. Here is an example, so there is no backup. For backup, you can consider the following method: dd if=/path/filename of=/dev/vdc1

• Use the umount command to unmount the current device partition. Or use the fuser command umount /dev/vdb1

• If it prompts that the device is busy, you can use the fuser command to force the uninstall: fuser -m -v -i -k ./

• Download the third-party tool extundelete installation, search for accidentally deleted files and restore them

extundelete tool installation

extundelete download address: http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/

wget https://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/extundelete/extundelete/0.2.4/extundelete-0.2.4.tar.bz2

Extract the filetar jxvf extundelete-0.2.4.tar.bz2

If this error is reported

[root@docking ~]# tar jxvf extundelete-0.2.4.tar.bz2 tar (child): bzip2：无法 exec: 没有那个文件或目录 tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Useyum -y install bzip2to solve the problem

[root@docking ~]# tar jxvf extundelete-0.2.4.tar.bz2 extundelete-0.2.4/ extundelete-0.2.4/acinclude.m4 extundelete-0.2.4/missing extundelete-0.2.4/autogen.sh extundelete-0.2.4/aclocal.m4 extundelete-0.2.4/configure extundelete-0.2.4/LICENSE extundelete-0.2.4/README ...................................................

cd extundelete-0.2.4 ./configure

If an error is reported in this step

[root@docking extundelete-0.2.4]# ./configure Configuring extundelete 0.2.4 configure: error: in `/root/extundelete-0.2.4': configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details

Useyum -y install gcc-cSolution.

If you still get an error after executing the previous step,

[root@docking extundelete-0.2.4]# ./configure Configuring extundelete 0.2.4 configure: error: Can't find ext2fs library

then useyum -y install e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-develto solve it.
#The solution for Ubuntu is sudo apt-get install e2fslibs-dev e2fslibs-dev

If nothing unexpected happens, configure should be able to complete successfully here.

[root@docking extundelete-0.2.4]# ./configure Configuring extundelete 0.2.4 Writing generated files to disk [root@docking extundelete-0.2.4]#

FinallymakeThenmake install

[root@docking extundelete-0.2.4]# make make -s all-recursive Making all in src extundelete.cc: 在函数‘ext2_ino_t find_inode(ext2_filsys, ext2_filsys, ext2_inode*, std::string, int)’中: extundelete.cc:1272:29: 警告：在 {} 内将‘search_flags’从‘int’转换为较窄的类型‘ext2_ino_t {aka unsigned int}’ [-Wnarrowing] buf, match_name2, priv, 0}; ^ [root@docking extundelete-0.2.4]# make install Making install in src /usr/bin/install -c extundelete '/usr/local/bin'

extundelete installation is completed.

Scan for accidentally deleted files:

Usedf -lhto view the mount:

taroballs@taroballs-PC:~$ df -lh 文件系统 容量 已用 可用 已用% 挂载点 udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 387M 1.8M 385M 1% /run /dev/sda2 92G 61G 26G 71% / tmpfs 1.9G 49M 1.9G 3% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda3 104G 56G 44G 57% /home tmpfs 387M 40K 387M 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/sda4 70G 20G 47G 30% /media/taroballs/d8423f8c-d687-4c03-a7c8-06a7fb57f96d /dev/sdb1 6.8G 4.1G 2.8G 60% /media/taroballs/taroballs /dev/sr0 4.0G 4.0G 0 100% /media/taroballs/2018-01-16-12-36-00-00 taroballs@taroballs-PC:~$ cd /media/taroballs/taroballs/ taroballs@taroballs-PC:/media/taroballs/taroballs$

You can see that our directory /media/taroballs/taroballs

is mounted to /dev/sdb1 In this file system.

umount our mounting disk

For example:

taroballs@taroballs-PC:~$ df -lh | grep /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 6.8G 4.1G 2.8G 60% /media/taroballs/taroballs

umount this directory

taroballs@taroballs-PC:~$ umount /media/taroballs/taroballs taroballs@taroballs-PC:~$ df -lh | grep /dev/sdb1 taroballs@taroballs-PC:~$ #记得删除一定要后umount哦，不然二次写入谁也帮不了你呢。

Restore through inode node

taroballs@taroballs-PC:~$ mkdir recovertest taroballs@taroballs-PC:~$ cd recovertest/ taroballs@taroballs-PC:~/recovertest$

Perform recoveryextundelete /dev/sdb1 --inode 2

taroballs@taroballs-PC:/media/taroballs/taroballs$ sudo extundelete /dev/sdb1 --inode 2 NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored. Loading filesystem metadata ... 8 groups loaded. Group: 0 Contents of inode 2: . .省略N行 File name | Inode number | Deleted status . 2 .. 2 deletetest 12 Deleted tmppasswd 14 Deleted

The folder we deleted was discovered through scanning, now Perform recovery operations.

(1) Recover a single file tmppasswd

taroballs@taroballs-PC:~/recovertest$ extundelete /dev/sdb1 --restore-file passwd NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored. Loading filesystem metadata ... 8 groups loaded. Loading journal descriptors ... 46 descriptors loaded. Successfully restored file tmppasswd

The recovered file is placed in the current directory RECOVERED_FILES.

View the recovered files:

taroballs@taroballs-PC:~/recovertest$ cat tmppasswd tcpdump:x:172:72::/:/sbin/nologin

(2) Restore directory deletetest

extundelete /dev/sdb1 --restore-directory deletetest NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored. Loading filesystem metadata ... 8 groups loaded. Loading journal descriptors ... 46 descriptors loaded. Searching for recoverable inodes in directory deletetest ... 5 recoverable inodes found. Looking through the directory structure for deleted files ...

(3) Restore all

taroballs@taroballs-PC:~/recovertest$ extundelete /dev/sdb1 --restore-all NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored. Loading filesystem metadata ... 8 groups loaded. Loading journal descriptors ... 46 descriptors loaded. Searching for recoverable inodes in directory / ... 5 recoverable inodes found. Looking through the directory structure for deleted files ... 0 recoverable inodes still lost. taroballs@taroballs-PC:~/recovertest$ tree backuptest/ ├── deletetest │ └── innerfolder │ └── deletefile.txt └── tmppasswd 2 directories, 2 files

(4) Restore specified inode

taroballs@taroballs-PC:~/recovertest$ extundelete /dev/sdb1 --restore-inode 14 NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored. Loading filesystem metadata ... 8 groups loaded. Loading journal descriptors ... 46 descriptors loaded. taroballs@taroballs-PC:~/recovertest$ cat file.14 tcpdump:x:172:72::/:/sbin/nologin #注意恢复inode的时候，恢复 出来的文件名和之前不一样，需要单独进行改名。

Finally attached is the usage ofextundelete:

$ extundelete --help Usage: extundelete [options] [--] device-file Options: --version, -[vV] Print version and exit successfully. --help, Print this help and exit successfully. --superblock Print contents of superblock in addition to the rest. If no action is specified then this option is implied. --journal Show content of journal. --after dtime Only process entries deleted on or after 'dtime'. --before dtime Only process entries deleted before 'dtime'.Actions: --inode ino Show info on inode 'ino'. --block blk Show info on block 'blk'. --restore-inode ino[,ino,...] Restore the file(s) with known inode number 'ino'. The restored files are created in ./RECOVERED_FILES with their inode number as extension (ie, file.12345). --restore-file 'path' Will restore file 'path'. 'path' is relative to root of the partition and does not start with a '/' The restored file is created in the current directory as 'RECOVERED_FILES/path'. --restore-files 'path' Will restore files which are listed in the file 'path'. Each filename should be in the same format as an option to --restore-file, and there should be one per line. --restore-directory 'path' Will restore directory 'path'. 'path' is relative to the root directory of the file system. The restored directory is created in the output directory as 'path'. --restore-all Attempts to restore everything. -j journal Reads an external journal from the named file. -b blocknumber Uses the backup superblock at blocknumber when opening the file system. -B blocksize Uses blocksize as the block size when opening the file system. The number should be the number of bytes. --log 0 Make the program silent. --log filename Logs all messages to filename.--log D1=0,D2=filename Custom control of log messages with comma-separated Examples below: list of options. Dn must be one of info, warn, or --log info,error error. Omission of the '=name' results in messages --log warn=0 with the specified level to be logged to the console. --log error=filename If the parameter is '=0', logging for the specified level will be turned off. If the parameter is '=filename', messages with that level will be written to filename. -o directory Save the recovered files to the named directory. The restored files are created in a directory named 'RECOVERED_FILES/' by default.

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