Originally posted by: apple08

dear IBM AIX gurus,
would like to seek your advice. how to recover the deleted files in aix . we don't have any backup to rely on. hopefully miracle OS step would recover the deleted files. would really appreciate your advice on this.

hope to hear from you. thank you

Originally posted by: flodstrom

I think this depends on how far you really want to go with this, or in other words how important were those files really?

First you must stop with all I/O activity (especially writing operations) on the file system where the files were deleted (unmount the file system, single user mode, etc.). In case there were activity (still is?) on the file system after the incident than it might already be to late to get anything back.

However, in case you reacted quickly, try the undelete tool from http://www.compunix.com . You can use the scan tool for free to see if there's anything left to save, but to actually recover files you need to pay for the license.

Originally posted by: apple08

Dear Sir,
i have downloaded the v53fslist.bin.gz. can't find the trial licence either. huhu. any tested free tool available?

Originally posted by: flodstrom

You can still use the "scan only" without any license, just to see if it helps you or not. To actually recover something you see from the scan, you need that license.

Not that I need it, but I did a test run on our AIX 6.1 system and it ran fine without any license.

As for any free undelete tool for AIX, sorry I don't think that exist? However, I saw a description of how to recover a file from a JFS file system (Note! Not JFS2). You can have a look at that to see if it helps you.

http://www.phase2.net/2008/03/04/aix-recovering-a-deleted-file-undelete/

Originally posted by: HaanLee

 H-Data Recovery Master is not bad. I tried a lot of recovery tool, only H-Data Recover 95% of my lost files.