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gET iT i sAY. giis for ext4 (giis-ext4)
[](https://travis-ci.org/Lakshmipathi/giis-ext4)
*About giis
*How to install
*User Guide and Documents
### About giis:
Linux Desktop comes with Trash Bin for GUI. But when you delete a file from commandline or delete a file via programs. They will be deleted forever! giis-ext4 acts as a recycle bin in such cases.
gET iT i sAY.giis-ext4 is a text based file recovery tool.Once you install giis-ext4,files on your disk can be recovered using giis-ext4. But Those files which deleted before the installation of giis-ext4 can't be recovered using giis-ext4.User has the option to choose directories too. Add only those directories where you will store important data.(adding directories like /tmp gives giis-ext4 overhead and installation will take long time).It can recovers a deleted file and restores in it's original directory,if path exists.It recoversdropped database tables.
### Screencast:
Tip,to save 6 minutes of your life, During screen-cast after 1:08 you can skip to 7:38. If you interested in boring recovery messages,feel free to watch the whole screen-cast :)
[](https://asciinema.org/a/43t9t02wyg1r8hxhdo8w0533o)
### How it works?
During installation, giis-ext4 stores file attributes in a sqlite-db. These attribute include output from `stat` command along
with critical data block address. You can view this database content from `/usr/local/giis/db/giis-db`
At specific time interval, giis-ext4 takes snapshot of pre-configured directories and updates the database. It also searches for deleted files and restores them back into `/usr/local/giis/trash` location.
### How reliable is giis-ext4?
As long as the freed data blocks are not re-used by kernel, giis-ext4 will work. Since giis-ext4 doesn't rely on journal entries, even when the system is rebooted, giis-ext4 can recover the file.
giis-ext4 can't recover any file ,(a) if its data blocks are re-used (b) if the file attributes doesn't present in its database. So itsnot 100% fool-proof. At the moment, it works only with ext4 file system.
### Future plans:
- Provide per user trash location.
- Include ext3 support in giis-ext4 ( rename the tool as giis)
- Support for Btrfs!
### How to install:
see INSTALL file
### User Guide and Documents
For more screencasting/manuals,checkout www.giis.co.in
You can get me at <[email protected]>
-Lakshmipathi.G
www.giis.co.in
-Mar 29,2016.
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