9:11 a.m.
I was afraid of that. Perhaps some level of protection from accidental data loss while in
interactive mode (maybe just unlinking files and later deleting them when space is needed)
is a decent feature suggestion.
Thanks,
Alvin
On Sep 4, 2023, at 7:40 AM, Valentin Rothberg
<vrothberg(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi Alvin,
I am really sorry about the data loss.
Unfortunately, there is no magic `podman recover` feature that would bring the data back.
The behavior of `network rm` is documented but I sympathize that it's not helpful in
your situation.
I feel bad that I cannot help you much.
Good luck,
Valentin
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 12:28 PM Alvin Thompson <alvin(a)thompsonlogic.com
<mailto:alvin@thompsonlogic.com>> wrote:
> Help!
>
> Is there any way to recover files from a deleted container? Long story short, I found
the behavior of `podman network rm -f` unexpected, and it wound up deleting most of my
containers. One in particular had a month of work in it (I was using it as a development
environment), and it turns out only part of it was backed up. I’m desperate!
>
> This is Podman for Windows, so most of the files on the “host” are in the WSL
environment. I can get into that no problem with `wsl -d podman-machine-default`.
>
> As an added wrinkle, my default connection was `podman-machine-default-root`, but I
was was not running Podman rootful. I’m not sure this is particularly relevant.
>
> grep-ing for strings which are unique to the development environment shows one hit in
Windows, in
%HOME%/.local/containers/podman/machine/wsl/wsldist/podman-machine-default/ext4.vhdx -
which I assume is the file system for the WSL layer itself. I made a copy of it.
>
> A grep within WSL itself doesn’t show so any hits, so it’s possible the files were
deleted as far as WSL is concerned. I tried searching for an EXT4 undelete tool, but the
only one I found (extundelete) is from 10+ years ago and doesn’t appear to work anymore.
>
> I haven’t stopped WSL (I’m using /tmp as a staging area) or restarted the computer.
>
> I’m at wit’s end. I really don’t know where to begin or look to recover these files,
which I really, really need. Any recovery suggestions (no matter how tedious) would be
welcome.
>
> I know it’s too late to change now, but man, the behavior of `podman network remove`
is unexpected.
>
> Thanks,
> Alvin
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