Plesk 9.5.3 backup archives restoration as standalone files

[vaida.dan]

Short story long story, here's what happened: due to the recently-discovered proftpd exploit I got my server wiped.

Now I am looking at PhotoRec 6.11 as it recovers gz archives and xml files.

Recovering is successful so far in terms that I am able to recover .gz archives and xml files which have valid timestamps.

Thing is, when I open such archive (name is for example f36831232.gz) it contains a file which shows up as "0 bytes" in size and has the exact name as the archive, without the .gz extension. I try to unpack the file but I get myself an error.

No directory structure though, no .discovered folder(s), no original file names.

My question is: "will I be able to recover some data from those archives ?".

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks you.

 

[IgorG]

What size of gz archive and how you have unpacked it? And how this archive has been created?

 

[vaida.dan]

Hello Igor.

The size of the archives is variable. Anything from kb to hundreds of mbs. I am unpacking them using a little script i wrote:

for a in `ls -1 *.gz`; do tar -zxvf $a; done

This basically extracts everything in the archives but sometimes tells me that archives are corrupt though it extracts some of the contents.