how to recover (at least part of) a deleted file?

Wed Mar 9 11:27:43 PST 2005

On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

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> On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> I have a 5.3-REL-p5 system and I accidently deleted an apache log 
>> before processing it.  I would like to recover as much as possible 
>> from it.  I have been looking in the sysutils ports and Googling but 
>> have not come up with a way of doing this.  What is the best way to 
>> attempt to recover a lost file or its contents, or as much as 
>> possible of it???
>>
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> I should mention -- this is ufs2
>

And in case it matters, what happened was

I mv'ed the file to a different name and created a new log file.

ie

% mv access_log access_log.20050309; touch access_log

I restarted apache

I then accidently  did the move again so it replaced my previous saved 
copy with a new smaller one.

Chad