Use Recuva on Server data drive?

[TechSupp]

We had three members of staff leave at Christmas and someone in their not brightest moment has deleted the users folders which were on a separate drive on the server (No! that person was not me and no idea...well a few guesses... who did it!). Don't usually clear the folders off quickly just in case they have worked on something we need later...but hey ho someone obviously thought they knew better and sods law no backup of that particular area (don't even ask...that's Monday job), these are not vital folders but would be good if they can be recovered. I usually use Recuva on memory cards to get photos back etc but should it be OK to run on the drive in the server? or is there any other way of getting it back?

[free780]

Use testdisk. You don't have to install anything just runs from a folder. Is the server physical or virtual?

[Chuckster]

I think that you will find you'll be hard pressed to recover anything off of the server where there is a lot of read/writes, especially if RAID'ed.

 

If you can take the server offline, then you may have a fighting chance, otherwise it's a losing battle unless you do it professionally.

[TechSupp]

Just an update, did try Recuva for what its worth...and it worked! Was only looking for some photographs so that cut time down. Job done, still no idea who deleted them if first place though! 😠