[mythtv-users] rsync deleted source and destination while moving recordings to a new drive

[Ma Begaj]

2009/2/20  <jarpublic at gmail.com>:
> I am afraid I really screwed up this time but I thought somebody here may be
> able to help me. I was in the process of retiring an old drive and moving
> all of my recordings to a new drive. I used rsync -avrpPH
> /mnt/data-a/mythtv/recordings /mnt/data-b/mythtv/recordings/ to do the
> initial transfer and everything worked fine. Then just before I was going to
> get ready to repurpose the old drive I ran the same command one more time to
> pick up any additional recordings and I added the --del option. This was my
> fatal mistake (yes the small voice in my head said, "use the dry-run option
> just in case"). My understanding (or I should say my misunderstanding from
> my quick read of the man page) was that this would delete files from the
> source after they had been synced to the destination. Either I made a syntax
> mistake or as I suspect from rereading the man page, the --del will remove a
> file from both the source and the destination. So now my recordings folder
> are empty on both the source and destination. Both are located on XFS
> partitions. I shutdown the system so the drives won't get changed at all. Is
> there any hope of me getting these back? How do I do it? Google wasn't my
> friend on this one. If not it is ok it was about 150 gigs and it was mostly
> kids shows and some movies from tv.
>
> My next question is if I can't get the recordings back how do I clean up the
> database so that those shows/movies can be recorded again? Will running the
> find orphans script in the contrib folder do the job? Or will they all still
> be marked as previously recorded in the database? Any help will be greatly
> appreciated.


Try this: http://linuxwebdev.blogspot.com/2005/06/xfs-undelete-howto-how-to-undelete.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=748497

not very promising, but it  maybe could help.