# Lost data **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [October 22, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/lost-data/23225 "2012-10-22T20:32:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/lost-data/23225/1 "2012-10-22T20:32:23Z")
I have a user who has been working out of a volume on the server she alone has access to. We have been backing up this data on a local USB drive off her computer. Data turns up missing both places. Folders are intact on the server. The only thing I can see is that she was working off the USB drive, emptied the folders and then copied them over to the server. The server has the empty folders, but nothing to salvage. Any other thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![buckesfeld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@buckesfeld](https://forums.suse.com/u/buckesfeld)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/lost-data/23225/2 "2012-10-22T20:51:13Z")
Miles58 wrote: [color=blue] > Any other thoughts?[/color] Try a data recovery tool on the USB stick. U ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/lost-data/23225/3 "2012-10-22T21:01:20Z")
Whoops! I said that wrong Somehow she emptied the folders on the server then copied them back over the top of themselves. I think she did this by having a second mapping to the smae file spec. I think maybe she deleted them from her WS and they were too big to fit in the recycle bin. After that I think she copied the empty folders over the top of themselves on the second mapping. Don’t ask me more hard questions! This is a creative user. She’s one of four and she takes half ogf my time that I spend on those four. Dave “Uwe Buckesfeld” [u.buckesfeld@web.de](mailto:u.buckesfeld@web.de) wrote in message [news:lIfhs.906$Cn5.293@kovat.provo.novell.com](mailto:news:lIfhs.906$Cn5.293@kovat.provo.novell.com)…[color=blue] > Miles58 wrote: > [color=green] > > > Any other thoughts?[/color] > > Try a data recovery tool on the USB stick. > > U[/color] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/lost-data/23225/4 "2012-10-22T22:11:54Z")
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:01:20 GMT, “Miles58” [miles58nospam@gmail.com](mailto:miles58nospam@gmail.com) wrote: [color=blue] > Don’t ask me more hard questions! This is a creative user. She’s one of > four and she takes half ogf my time that I spend on those four.[/color] I don’t like to leave backups in the hands of normal users, let alone “creative” ones. 🙂 Not that it will help the immediate problem, but you definitely need to automate backups and get them out of her hands. Ken ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/lost-data/23225/5 "2012-10-23T11:57:26Z")
On 22/10/2012 20:11, KeN Etter wrote:[color=blue][color=green] > > Don’t ask me more hard questions! This is a creative user. She’s one of > > four and she takes half ogf my time that I spend on those four.[/color] > > I don’t like to leave backups in the hands of normal users, let alone > “creative” ones. 🙂 Not that it will help the immediate problem, > but you definitely need to automate backups and get them out of her > hands.[/color] Teach her to use turtlegit - keep the master on the server (you don’t actually have to even tell her where it is :), and HER copy on the usb drive (make it a bare repo so she can’t actually edit files in there) then she not only has a full revision history, but wont’ accidentally do random stuff like this. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/lost-data/23225/6 "2012-10-23T16:47:36Z")
On 23/10/2012 09:57, Dave Howe wrote:[color=blue] > On 22/10/2012 20:11, KeN Etter wrote:[color=green][color=darkred] > > > > Don’t ask me more hard questions! This is a creative user. She’s one of > > > four and she takes half ogf my time that I spend on those four.[/color] > > > > I don’t like to leave backups in the hands of normal users, let alone > > “creative” ones. 🙂 Not that it will help the immediate problem, > > but you definitely need to automate backups and get them out of her > > hands.[/color] > > Teach her to use turtlegit - keep the master on the server (you don’t > actually have to even tell her where it is :), and HER copy on the usb > drive (make it a bare repo so she can’t actually edit files in there) > then she not only has a full revision history, but wont’ accidentally do > random stuff like this. > [/color] If it is something like that you would like. There is a project called sparkleshare It was started and is maintained by a creative type. [http://sparkleshare.org/](http://sparkleshare.org/) Just saying 🙂 Lance ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/lost-data/23225/7 "2012-10-29T19:43:18Z")
Hello, check whether the files are hidden in your system? If it is not present, then use a memory card recovery software to get back all your lost data. I suggest you to use [USB data recovery](http://www.remosoftware.com/usb-data-recovery) tool, because I used this tool when I was suffering from the same problem and I was happy in getting back my data. You can [download](http://www.remosoftware.com/download#rwin) the tool here and if any problem arises you can reply me.