Recovering deleted files in Linux ! The ext4magic ...

I was wondering if I could find any tool that would undelete files from ext3/ext4 partitions. While searching I came across this tool which did the job I wanted. I tested it on an old Fedora-14 (32 bit) system;

[Source:   

http://source.kohlerville.com/2013/02/ext4-recover-deleted-files-undelete-using-ext4magic-on-centos-6/ 

]

Following are the steps;

1. Download URL;
http://rpms.plnet.rs/plnet-centos6-i386/RPMS.plnet-downloaded/ext4magic-0.3.1-1.2.i686.rpm
http://rpms.plnet.rs/plnet-centos6-x86_64/RPMS.plnet-downloaded/ext4magic-0.3.1-1.2.x86_64.rpm

2. Install;
# yum install ext4magic-0.3.1-1.2.i686.rpm --nogpgcheck
(I could not find the gpg key so I avoided checking the same while installing)

3. I deleted some of the files from "/LVM-1" directory which was acting as the mount point for
        /dev/mapper/vg1-lv--1

4. Stop using the filesystem that needs recovery and unmount it;
# umount /LVM-1

5. Copy partition;
(dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/BACKUPPATH/DEVICE.img)
# dd if=/dev/mapper/vg1-lv--1 of=/BACKUP/vg1-lv--1.img

6. Examine the directory structure once. I created a separate directory for recovered files;
# tree BACKUP/
BACKUP/
├── RECOVERED
└── vg1-lv--1.img

7. Run ext4magic on the copy/dd-image to recover all deleted files (-m switch for files and 
        -M if entire filesystem needs recovery);

(ext4magic /BACKUPPATH/DEVICE.img -m -j /BACKUPPATH/journal.copy)

# ext4magic /BACKUP/vg1-lv--1-NEW.img -M -d /BACKUP/RECOVERED/
Warning: Activate magic-scan or disaster-recovery function, may be some command line options
         ignored
"/BACKUP/RECOVERED/"  accept for recoverdir
Filesystem in use: /BACKUP/vg1-lv--1-NEW.img

Using  internal Journal at Inode 8
Activ Time after  : Wed Jul 15 14:03:20 2015
Activ Time before : Wed Jul 15 14:07:04 2015
Inode 2 is allocated
-------- /BACKUP/RECOVERED//lost+found
-------- /BACKUP/RECOVERED//Dir-1
-------- /BACKUP/RECOVERED//Dir-2
-------- /BACKUP/RECOVERED//file-1
-------- /BACKUP/RECOVERED//file-2
-------- /BACKUP/RECOVERED//
MAGIC-1 : start lost directory search
MAGIC-2 : start lost file search
MAGIC-2 : start lost in journal search
MAGIC-3 : start ext4-magic-scan search
ext4magic : EXIT_SUCCESS


Bang! Files are back :)