21:10 <hannes_> is there a way that i might be able to recover a deleted grain on a server i am full root on?

21:12 <JacobWeisz[m]> I assume when Sandstorm permanently deletes something, it permanently deletes something. Is it a machine you can run any sort of drive recovery software on?

21:13 <hannes_> yeah, i could do that. write activity should have been minimal

21:13 <hannes_> what would i be looking for

21:14 <JacobWeisz[m]> Should be a folder with the grain ID, I believe. It'd be awful to figure out if you didn't know that though, I imagine.

21:14 <hannes_> that i do have! :)

21:15 <JacobWeisz[m]> I don't remember the exact file structure, but there's a grains folder somewhere inside /opt/sandstorm, and it'd be in there.

21:16 <JacobWeisz[m]> Assuming you can recover the exact files, getting it back into Sandstorm would be it's own process: Probably downloading a grain backup of an empty grain from the same app, pasting the data in, and then restoring it that way...

21:20 <hannes_> i just lost all my tasks so i would even hexedit the living poop out of it if necessary...

21:20 <hannes_> trying testdisk/photorec now

21:29 <abliss> (just to be sure: you did check sandstorm's trash can, right?)

21:33 <hannes_> i was 1000% sure that i had migrated my setup to devsync so i had emptied the trash can right away \o/

21:34 <hannes_> but then it turns out devsync does not handle tasks and then it turned out the tasks i had on my phone for days were just cached by something and went poof when i uninstalled davx5

21:34 <hannes_> super mess

21:39 <isd> Grains are stored under /opt/sandstorm/var/sandstorm/grains/<grain-id>, if that helps

21:51 <hannes_> if it was moved to the trash, does that mean a archive was created or something like that?

21:51 <hannes_> would that file include certain string by any chance?

21:55 <isd> I think moving to the trash just updates a database entry, so wouldn't change the directory structure at all.

22:04 <hannes_> dang

22:05 <hannes_> well i think i recovered most so far (searched for VTODO as it was todos in a .ics format in Radicale), i'll try to get the more recent stuff tomorrow.

22:05 <hannes_> got a snapshot of the server

22:05 <hannes_> thanks for your help already!

22:06 <hannes_> (PS: I HATE *DAV EVERYTHING AND SMARTPHONE INTERFACES AAAAAAAAH)

22:07 <isd> No problem! sorry I couldn't give you an eaiser solution.