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10:01 AM

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11:55 AM

Sooo

Data recovery question

I have a file (foo.xyz) which was replaced by a symlink to itself

debugfs: lsdel reports

0 deleted inodes found.

Any thoughts about how to proceed? :S

(also tried extundelete with no success in finding the file either under it's symlink name or original filename)

Ah, so lsdel was intended for ext2

what fs firstly

And you have backups, right?

So, in creating the symlink, you removed the file handle from the file on disk, so we need to get that back...

As long as you don't have some kind of zero'ing turned on, it's just a case of putting the file handler back except you don't know what inodes it pointed at previously.

@djsmiley2k This file is games footage, which is deliberately not backed up because it's already terabytes in size

If needed I can export from Twitch in lower quality

Hmm, think I was using ext4undelete wrong

and giving an absolute path, rather than relative to mount

Will give it a try when I can remount ro

you want to mount as ro asap btw.

I'm sure you're aware...

I know

If it's gone, it's gone

I'm in the middle of a YT upload which is blocking the remount

fun thing with footage, as long as not truely retarded encoding, you'll recover most of it.

if that's the only thing using the disk, you should be ok to just 'wait'

you just really really really really don't want to cause a write

12:11 PM

I only realised the file was overwritten now

But it was done a while / a number of writes ago

So shrug

If it's gone, it's gone

12:23 PM

@bertieb riot

whoops

Funny thing is, YT also has a copy of the file

But it won't let me download it

1:00 PM

urgh

is it still processing it?

heh, vaping is starting to finally cause some weird health effects.

I wonder how long before mouldy lungs become a thing

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/14770-aspergillosis

1:12 PM

@djsmiley2k So it claims

It failed before so I reuploaded

I reckon it'll fail again

So was going up transcode

Will check on it when I get home

1 hour later…

2:16 PM

Hmm

So ext4magic reckons there's lots of different transactions for that inode

The most recent of which relate to symlink

Wonder how I can see older ones

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2:35 PM

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2:58 PM

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3:08 PM

Ooooft

1 day till the Twitch VOD expires on that video I lost

The strange thing is, even though YT says "it's still processing' it plays fine

wonder if I can dl it from YT

Journeyman Geek

I think it quick processes to some wassnames...

resolutions

It does

That's true

But if it fails it junks the whole thing

Also the video allegedly has res/quality down to 144p

So it's processed something

Let's see if youtube-dl can grab it before YT gives up on it entirely

Bob

@bertieb can you download from twitch?

@Bob Just today- I'd rather grab from YT as it's higher quality than Twitch

My local recordings are crf-limited rahter than bitrate 3000-3500 ish limited, y'see

Bob

@bertieb grab the twitch one first in case the yt one fails

3:15 PM

Aye, good thinking

Bleh, youtube-dl fails to log in

Bob

reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/8qq17h/…

reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/9dhk46/…

3:28 PM

I'm downloading the VOD

But youtube-dl is being an arsepain

Pass nothing, and I can't get the video (as expected, not published yet)

Pass credentials, "400 Bad Request"

Pass cookies ~~eats cookies and says thanks~~, "ERROR: This video is private."

What's a guy gotta do?!

Guess I'll set it to unlisted

4:11 PM

Interestingly, Google served me a transcoded copy

4:39 PM

want me to grab a copy?

I've grabbed one, thanks tho!

2 hours later…

6:55 PM

@JourneymanGeek speaking of things to do with old PCs, I think I'm going to set up a dedicated Halo:CE server :)

7:25 PM

Ah, the heady days of 2001

I still have my (X)boxed copy of that

@bertieb The game is as old as me, lol

#feelsoldman

And it's one of very few video games that I actually enjoy

It was fun, back in the day

8:03 PM

I'm back running binding of issac

8:35 PM

@bertieb

give my bro some love everyone!!!

Summer 2019 RL

►

@djsmiley2k Nice

I checked when I was trying to sort that weird YT processing thing

And I'm, uh, nearly at 1000 videos

Didn't think it had been that many :o

lol

Nearly at 1000 views too!~

Before anyone makes that joke... ;-P

Reminds me of a line from an underrated cult comedy

getyarn.io/yarn-clip/264fbfd6-badb-414c-a74f-14414959d858

lololol

9:03 PM

What game? DDR or a knockoff?

Been thinking of getting a pad recently