Hi,

I'm using a Debian Lenny host for hosting of my website, and i've made a terrible mistake today... With su privileges I've killed my server with the following command: mv /* ../* (which had to be ./*)
I'm no expert whatsoever, so please don't break me down on my stupidity... Everything is gone, i cannot boot the host anymore. It is virtualized (Esxi4.0), the VMDK file is not empty(22GB used). Is there ANY way to recover my data? I'm downloading setting up a workstation with VMware Disk Mount, but i really don't know if i can get the data back?

Help is really appreciated!

Hi,

welcome to LQ!

You should be able to boot the VM of a Rescue-CD ISO image, and
move everything back to where it belongs. And a move of /* would
have been stupid no matter where you're moving stuff to.
It would always break the box.



Cheers,
Tink

Mount the file through the virtual machine using knoppix 5.x pre-adriane as you would do so for a real machine.
From there, you'll need to create a second virtual disk and mount the original through an entry in /etc/fstab.
Then you can move the information over.
Next time, make backups.