Deleted files need help urgently! thanks

Hi guys,

just recently deleted some family photos by accident.
been googling today and found photorec
is it too late to install it now and try to restore the files?
folder structure is still there, just deleted them accidentaly.

please help. Thanks

I've just installed backup which photorec is part off, but when trying to run it, I got an error.

Failed to get configuration (xpath=//system/shares/sharedfolder[uuid=''])

Error #3003:
exception 'OMVException' with message 'Failed to get configuration (xpath=//system/shares/sharedfolder[uuid=''])' in /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/sharemgmt.inc:1048
Stack trace:
#0 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceShareMgmt->getPath(Array, Array)
#1 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpcservice.inc(125): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#2 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(62): OMVRpcServiceAbstract->callMethod('getPath', Array, Array)
#3 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/backup.inc(358): OMVRpc::exec('ShareMgmt', 'getPath', Array, Array)
#4 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceBackup->doRecover(NULL, Array)
#5 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpcservice.inc(125): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#6 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(62): OMVRpcServiceAbstract->callMethod('doRecover', NULL, Array)
#7 /usr/sbin/omv-engined(495): OMVRpc::exec('Backup', 'doRecover', NULL, Array, 1)
#8 {main}

Thanks, so I just need to boot on to it? is it pretty straight forward?
I tried using photorec and it couldn't find any of them!

i've been googling for commands and still a bit confused
I know that I need to know the partition mount which is /dev/sda
but other than that do i need to know which folder and the exact path of where the files were?
also do i need to unmount it when booted into systemrescuecd?

Hi all,

I'm still having no luck with extundelete.
basically, it's a RAID 1 where the files are, path on OMV was /media/[drive UUID]/foldera
whenever I tried extundelete /dev/sdb1 --restore-all, this is what I get

NOTICE: Extended attributes are not restored.
Loading filesystem metadata ... 22357 groups loaded.
Loading journal descriptors ... 30705 descriptors loaded.
extundelete: Input/output error while creating output directory.
extundelete: Input/output error when trying to examine filesystem

if I tried using restore directory, was getting the same error.

I really need serious help, really appreciate if someone can help me out. cheers

I tried restore all, and i got lots of these

Unable to restore inode 149161099 (file.149161099): Space has been reallocated.
Unable to restore inode 149161104 (file.149161104): Space has been reallocated.
Unable to restore inode 149161315 (file.149161315): Space has been reallocated.

and it didn't restore my missing photos....

I've been googling and found extundelete --restore-directory [path of missing folder] [/dev/sdb1]
What I'm not sure about is the for the path of missing folder.
should I be using the same path as found in OMV folder structure? which is /media/[UUID]/folderpath?

I tried the command and I'm getting this
extundelete: Operation not permitted while restoring directory.
extundelete: Operation not permitted when trying to examine filesystem

Please advise. Thanks

Zitat von ryecoaaron

path of missing folder is optional. Change to the directory you want to restore the files TO and execute the command: extundelete --restore-all /dev/sdb1

I did that and got these

Unable to restore inode 149161099 (file.149161099): Space has been reallocated.Unable to restore inode 149161104 (file.149161104): Space has been reallocated.Unable to restore inode 149161315 (file.149161315): Space has been reallocated.

Zitat von subzero79

The fs layer is over a raid block device. The path should be /dev/md0 or /dev/md127

I probably should mentioned that I'm running extundelete by booting into systemrescuecd, not within OMV.
So all I could see is /dev/sdb1 whilst I know that within OMV it is md127

Should I be running extundelete within OMV ? or on systemrescueCD?

okay, thanks.
I've done it with systemrescuecd and could on see /dev/sdb1 not md127
and the error was the on that I mentioned above.

I tried photorec however and was able to md127 but couldn't find the missing files.

Hi Subzero,

Sure thing, I do agree that it needs to be done on the md device but again, i can't see it when I do blkid

root@sysresccd /mnt/windows % blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sdc: UUID="4bd6103f-6c37-782a-f3d2-03511a8e5df7" UUID_SUB="37b5e46c-0bf8-6180-b555-3fe55f8f7b91" LABEL="openmediavault:DATA" TYPE="linux_raid_member"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Movies" UUID="6cb6db8d-9ee1-41a8-b5c9-e2862699e6a1" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="f05140f4-d0da-4b81-8a0b-2d2de7367396"
/dev/sr0: UUID="2014-11-17-18-17-22-00" LABEL="sysrcd-4.4.1" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/sda: UUID="4bd6103f-6c37-782a-f3d2-03511a8e5df7" UUID_SUB="f13d1302-5b1a-6dd3-3a4e-e8107bdcd875" LABEL="openmediavault:DATA" TYPE="linux_raid_member"
/dev/sde1: UUID="425d4f1d-1fd2-4642-aebc-c5332ccc464e" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0001afed-01"
/dev/sde5: UUID="50ceae47-10e2-436c-9ec1-7453e5eafdb7" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="0001afed-05"
/dev/sdf1: LABEL="BACKUP" UUID="BC6E6F426E6EF514" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="1f9547f7-01"

unless blkid doesn't list out md devices? sorry for my lack of experience in linux