{"id":2569,"date":"2011-12-06T04:50:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hazelong.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2011-12-06T04:50:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T20:50:02","slug":"restoring-deleted-files-ftp-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musenmaker.com\/hazelong\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Restoring Deleted Files in FTP via Cpanel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here I am at 2 am and there is an emergency email from a client. Went to the Mac and meddle with some files, trying to right some wrong. Feeling like a boss, I started deleting all the redundant files and fucking hell, I deleted the entire album of photos. From 2007 til 2011. All the photos gone.<\/p>\n

I started sweating. Images of cigarettes appear in my head. I sat there stoned. Ok calm down. Solutions solutions.<\/p>\n

Option 1\/\/ .trash Folder<\/h2>\n

I navigated to each folder and start looking for the deleted folders. Especially in the Trash can. Nothing there. \/.trash folder is empty too. FML<\/p>\n

Option 2\/\/ SSH<\/h2>\n

Ok ok. fine fine. I’ll just log in to the cPanel and give myself a SSH access. No login credentials were given for either. After trying a few times, holy moly I am in the cPanel. Fuck yea meme – I feel like a hacker. No time to gloat, SSH settings here we go.<\/p>\n

Generate public keys.. private keys. I have done this before. but the instructions are swimming in front of me cuz I am too fucking stressed. Great. And what’s that search function for Terminal again. I can’t remember. Damn.<\/p>\n

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Option 3\/\/Backups in cPanel<\/h2>\n

Not likely to work. Since it wasn’t set up and there are just daily and partial downloads. But wait.<\/p>\n

I mouse over the Home Directory button, I saw a tar.gz file with a DATE attached to it. I pumped my fist in the air and copy the link, change the date to the day before and downloaded it.<\/p>\n

While I waited, I look at the server administrator email and did a google to find out who is the fucker that owns the server whom folders I deleted. Somehow I feel like it is all his fault. It is so nice to blame people at times like these.<\/p>\n

Download is done. I unzipped. Took damn long. No luck, the date didn’t matter, it is a download of the current state of the files.<\/p>\n

I have to try system backup. I click on the daily button. I am guessing they back up before I deleted the folders, since I made the changes 1 hour before. It couldn’t back up that fast. I had to download it before they started the new back up.<\/p>\n

Downloading again. Paranoid, I search for the compression ratio of tar.gz. I calculated the current size and checked with my first download. It matched. Add that to the SQL file size and all I need is for this file to be WAY bigger than the first one in size. 641 mb. It’s a good sign.<\/p>\n

I unzipped it. The files shown are weird. I saw a homedir.tar file. 634 mb. Hurray. I unzipped it.<\/p>\n

YES.<\/p>\n

It is all there. I lost a few files in the end but thats the recent files which I am sure my client still have them in her pc somewhere. In fact, this so called Daily backup is 5 days late. So I have 5 days worth of photos to apologize for in the end. Better than 4 years of photos.<\/p>\n

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Hope my experience help you if you are in a similar sticky situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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