Today I mistakenly deleted the file I was working with on the last few months. On Ext4 FS, so I got some new white hair while experimenting with the r-linux recovering tool.
Advice: on Ext4 most probably the name of the file is lost, but date of the inode might be intact, so sort by time and look for your data in those thousands of inode76569u468 files. Better than just straightforwardly losing the data though.
Now I have automatic backups.
Timeshift wouldn’t have helped me with hardware fault, and there were btrfs snapshots, just fs itself refused to mount after import.
Hmm okay. Yeah I didn’t read carefully I guess, just mentioning time shift as the easiest backup I’ve come across.