sadly just now i lost about 6 hours work by rsync of an older version over the newly edited file (rhel6). being usually very careful with backups and rsync, i have little experience with recovery. my guess in this circumstance is that most likely the very same disc blocks were written over, leaving less than a miniscule chance that even fairly sophisticated tools would recover anything, and, that the time required for attempting recovery would almost certainly outweigh the loss. would those with some relevant experience care to chime in? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120131/5a722237/attachment.html>