possibly data wiped

[errant crescent]

I was trying to delete the backup folder in timeshift and that somehow wiped my actual folders

Yeahh I must've deleted the wrong folder

it had timeshift/(some numbers)

I feel like an idiot

[urban field]

what folders got wiped?

[errant crescent]

most stuff

terminal was gone

all my apps

my home folder almost all of it

yeah no like everything was gone from the searchbar

I dont even know how

[urban field]

shit

[errant crescent]

I booted into a live iso and yeah I checked

[urban field]

what's left?

u in the iso rn?

[errant crescent]

almost nothing

ye

I had so much shit

[urban field]

mount your root on /mnt and do ls /mnt

[errant crescent]

did

[urban field]

what's the output

[urban field]

alright that seems ok

what about ls /mnt/home

[errant crescent]

gone

most of it

documents downloads

pictures

[urban field]

did u delete with rm or with a file manager

[errant crescent]

rm

[urban field]

oof

[errant crescent]

rm -rf

it was a folder called time shift

and had some numbers

[urban field]

blegh idk u can try stuff from here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_recovery

:/

[errant crescent]

my usb with my cv survived

phew

also my secondary ssd

[errant crescent]

I think ill try to reboot

but I did and it said

root user locked

can you guide me through it

[urban field]

wait

do ls -la /mnt/home/prism

[urban field]

ok shell stuff still there

[urban field]

wdym by this

[errant crescent]

holdon

ill reboot and show ya

ughhhjsjdj MY UNI FILES

[errant crescent]

had that backed up actually

hehehe

[urban field]

nice

[errant crescent]

my baby pics are gone though

alongside my iphone pics

ill back those up later methinks

[urban field]

so u have backups of them?

[errant crescent]

no ill use photorec

or what it was cold

called*

to restore them

ehh we'll see

anyway

[errant crescent]

is it blurry

[urban field]

it's fine

I just never seen this msg before

[errant crescent]

holy cooked

[urban field]

can u go back to the iso and get a journal?

[errant crescent]

ya sure

[urban field]

journalctl -b-1 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

just connect to the internet before u chroot

[errant crescent]

I'm on ethernet

is it automatically done

[urban field]

should be

[errant crescent]

do I chroot

[urban field]

ye

and then do that command

[errant crescent]

mk

uh

command not found

[urban field]

arch-chroot /mnt

[errant crescent]

same thing

[urban field]

oh wait

u also wiped /usr

I'm afraid it is very cooked

u shouldn't try to boot into your system anymore

work from the usb and try to get files from the drive

using the page I sent above

and then when you're done u can reinstall arch

[errant crescent]

can't I try to manually install arch with the current stuff

[urban field]

hmm u probably can but idk if it's a good idea

booting into the system is not a good idea when you lost data

[errant crescent]

mmm okay

I was just thinking of hopping to gentoo

unrelated

but

funny coincidence

[urban field]

next time try the trash program

it trashes stuff instead of removing completely like rm

[errant crescent]

I see

thank you so much for your help

[errant crescent]

you mean like

recovery tools or any files that survived?

cause nothing is left to backup

[urban field]

recovery tools

[errant crescent]

cant I do it after I wipe the drive

cause it wont be 0'd out

[urban field]

why tho

It will still write stuff to the drive I think

it's best to try to recover stuff without messing too much

[errant crescent]

I see

im trying to read it but like

[ripe storm]

is your disk a hdd or an ssd

[errant crescent]

ssd

[ripe storm]

if its an ssd you have close to 0 chances of recovery

[errant crescent]

nvme to be exact

[ripe storm]

well then

[errant crescent]

I have recovered photos in the past with photorec

like 99% of them

[ripe storm]

from what ive heard nvme drives 0 the files out when theyre deleted,

but i might be wrong

im like 80% sure

[errant crescent]

nope

I recovered before so

like even stuff that I deleted YEARS ago

[ripe storm]

Lol was that from this nvme drive?

nvmes have the trim command that will 0 out the deleted blocks used or randomize them or make them inaccessible

maybe its disabled or some shit

whatever

if you recovered data before, then try that

i wish you luck

fingers crossed

[errant crescent]

yeah

[errant crescent]

thank u

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[errant crescent]

I think ill do it tmrw though

thank fuck I have a laptop to use atm

and I got no uni rn

[mint ermine]

Testdisk

You still have the filesystem

[errant crescent]

Okay

Got it

Ill check it out tomorrow

[ripe storm]

true

[errant crescent]

Any clear documentation for it?

Can't find an archwiki page for it

[errant crescent]

I tried analyzing, when pressing on list all files on my root partition it says "Support for this filesystem wasn't enabled during compilation"

[ripe storm]

what filesystem did you use

on the disk

[errant crescent]

the main one

not the boot or swap

[ripe storm]

im gonna repeat myself

what filesystem were you using

like

ext4

zfs

[errant crescent]

btrfs

sorry I was out all day

I love how u didn't list btrfs I just know I'm cooked

[mint ermine]

it doesn't support btrfs

No snapshots?

They're literally free

Also you were using timeshift in rsync mode instead of btrfs snapshot mode?

btrfs has btrfs restore

Here's some script using that https://gist.github.com/Changaco/45f8d171027ea2655d74

@errant crescent

Try that and don't try to restore the files to the same drive

If that doesn't work try photorec which can recover regardless of fs

[errant crescent]

ok ill try tmrw ty

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[errant crescent]

@mint ermine sorry for the ping but

I found a snapshot

2 actually

dated 25th march

[errant crescent]

I did btrfs restore -i but it didn't restore my important files in the home folder

[errant crescent]

ello

still need help

okay so I guess it didn't restore my user backup cause the storage on my USB got maxxed out

is there anyway to make btrfs restore just one directory?

I have a spare 512gb nvme ill try to use an enclosure and back it up to that

[errant crescent]

yeah also didn't backup the home folder completely

gonna try photorex

rec*

[errant crescent]

how do I clone this into the live iso