Recent Data got deleted?!

[dvdhaar]

I found out a couple of directories became missing a while ago, and now I'm missing some more, all of the folders that have disappeared I opened not to long ago... It's very strange... I ran testdisk and photorec and got a whole bunch of recovered data, but all of it is in this kind of format:

f710676496.asf  f720900112.asf  f735842320.asf  f747325272.asf  f757338132.mpg  f758937196.mpg  f759722956.mpg  f760327624.mpg
f711200784.asf  f720900160.mpg  f735859296.mpg  f747331256.asf  f757600272.mpg  f758951612.mpg  f759737928.mpg  f760344816.mpg
f712405065.mpg  f721424400.asf  f736366608.asf  f747376656.asf  f757862416.mpg  f758971632.mpg  f759766760.mpg  f760374592.mpg
f713035792.asf  f721424448.mpg  f736380810.mpg  f747464520.asf  f758124576.mpg  f758986704.mpg  f759790976.mpg  f760394056.mpg
f713179173.mpg  f721743900.mpg  f737153040.asf  f747560872.asf  f758324488.mpg  f759001852.mpg  f759800440.mpg  f760447840.mpg

Most of the stuff was in .avi and DVD file format (VOB IFO etc). Is there any log I can check to see what happened to my files?! How is this possible in the first place?

[tomszyszko]

I found out a couple of directories became missing a while ago, and now I'm missing some more, all of the folders that have disappeared I opened not to long ago... It's very strange... I ran testdisk and photorec and got a whole bunch of recovered data, but all of it is in this kind of format:

f710676496.asf  f720900112.asf  f735842320.asf  f747325272.asf  f757338132.mpg  f758937196.mpg  f759722956.mpg  f760327624.mpg
f711200784.asf  f720900160.mpg  f735859296.mpg  f747331256.asf  f757600272.mpg  f758951612.mpg  f759737928.mpg  f760344816.mpg
f712405065.mpg  f721424400.asf  f736366608.asf  f747376656.asf  f757862416.mpg  f758971632.mpg  f759766760.mpg  f760374592.mpg
f713035792.asf  f721424448.mpg  f736380810.mpg  f747464520.asf  f758124576.mpg  f758986704.mpg  f759790976.mpg  f760394056.mpg
f713179173.mpg  f721743900.mpg  f737153040.asf  f747560872.asf  f758324488.mpg  f759001852.mpg  f759800440.mpg  f760447840.mpg

Most of the stuff was in .avi and DVD file format (VOB IFO etc). Is there any log I can check to see what happened to my files?! How is this possible in the first place?

Are you using EXT4, as files are lost if interupted while being written to, mainly because the files arnt filled with 0s like EXT3

[dvdhaar]

Are you using EXT4, as files are lost if interupted while being written to, mainly because the files arnt filled with 0s like EXT3

Hmm I don't really know actually the files are on my server which is running 9.04 but afaik the attached disks are still ext3.. I use the files via Samba basicly. I'll check the filesystem.

How would I go about checking the filesystem? I thought fdisk -l would show me. And I can't run gparted because I'm 'sshing' into the machine.

[Azrael3000]

sorry can't help you on the vanishing file thing, but for a list of partitions you can also try

sudo parted -l

[dvdhaar]

sorry can't help you on the vanishing file thing, but for a list of partitions you can also try

sudo parted -l

Ah thanks. I've got all ext3 partitions.

[dvdhaar]

Anyone has any idea what might have caused this? Or how I can get my data back in a right format?

[Martje_001]

You said you're running a server. Is it connected to the Internet? Who has access to it? Is it secure? Have you updated it?

[dvdhaar]

You said you're running a server. Is it connected to the Internet? Who has access to it? Is it secure? Have you updated it?

Yes it is, and now that you mention it, I recently ran:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I'm the only one that has access to it, it has some open ports for bittorent and port 22 for ssh. I haven't done anything concerning extra security, I've got a pretty heavy password but thats about it.

[Martje_001]

Check if you didn't accidentally ran a command lately which erased the files:

cat .bash_history

[dvdhaar]

Check if you didn't accidentally ran a command lately which erased the files:

cat .bash_history

Not that I can see, how far does it go back? I can only see very recent commands from today and yesterday pretty much. The strange thing is that the files missing are within a folder which has like 400+ directories, some of them disappeared. And the ones that disappeared are directories which I opened quite recently.