How to recover deleted folders or files in AWS EC2?

Question

Hello, How are you?
Unfortunately, I deleted all files in /var/www/html/car_wash directory by mistake.
I used following command
```
sudo rm -rf * /var/www/html/car_wash
```
This is my latest activity and I didn't overwrite any files and folders in this directory yet.
How can I recover these deleted files?
I am using AWS EC2 Linux instance and file system is ext4.
I hope you to help me.

Thank you and regards.

Answer

At a filesystem level, the data is gone I'm afraid.

If you have a backup or snapshot of the EBS volume (which is likely to be the root volume) from a time when the now-deleted data was present, then you may be able to recover from that.

AWS doesn't backup customers' data by default, it's something that you would have had to setup yourself.

How to recover deleted folders or files in AWS EC2?

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