Deleted all files from server by mistake

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by MysBorg_com, Dec 11, 2011.

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    Hello guys,

    Topic says half and the half story is my whm was always showing 95% disk space full warning, when I checked the clients accounts no account was above the quota limit, then when I googles I found this thread --> webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=947629

    As User "rghf" told to run 'du -sh /*' , I did and found '/files' folder was filled with 281G files in it,
    then I did this

    # cd /files

    in files: rm -rf /

    then Enter, then it started showing some errors and everything was getting deleted in background, soon I closed the putty and checked my sites and it shows 'Internal Server Error'

    and I can't even access to WHM or server thru putty, Please somebody help me recover everything I messed up :(
     
    MysBorg_com, Dec 11, 2011 IP
  2. AllHostOne.co.uk

    AllHostOne.co.uk Member

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    You are pretty stuffed if you deleted everything with SSH, only 1 way to get it back is to ask your host if they have a backup, or if you have a backup, if they or you dont then you've got to start all over again and installed cPanel/ WHM etc
     
    AllHostOne.co.uk, Dec 11, 2011 IP
  3. RHS-Chris

    RHS-Chris Well-Known Member

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    Hello there,

    Just a note, no where in that thread on WHT did they state to run the "rm -f /" command. You have totally wiped your server clean with this command, just like formatting your main hard drive on a Windows system. Was this a VPS or a dedicated server? If it is a VPS, your host may have a backup, if it is a dedicated server, your going to have to start all over again. Hope you have recent off server backups.

    Chris
     
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  4. BarrettNetworks

    BarrettNetworks Peon

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    Unless you have physical access to the server your pretty much out of luck. You can attempt to run recovery software but its pretty much a lost cause. Guess the lesson is if you dont know what a command is do not blindly execute it on your server...
     
    BarrettNetworks, Dec 17, 2011 IP
  5. HundredProof

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    Ideally, your WHM managing provider should have a backup of the last 7 days with them. Check before its too late to recover.
     
    HundredProof, Dec 17, 2011 IP
  6. ideamine

    ideamine Member

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    Hey,

    Please contact your web host as soon as possible usually they take backup of servers on a weekly basis. Please contact them now before its too late. Altranatively if you have a cpanel backup of your sites, your can ask host to reinstall server and restore from your backups.

    Hope you get all the data :)

    Regards,
     
    ideamine, Dec 18, 2011 IP