

This permits one to mount the filesystem of the given virtual host without running the virtual host and without running the services one has on the virtual host. I have brought the server back up using DigitalOcean's recovery mode. We are running Ubuntu 16.04 in DigitalOcean. I did that to prevent any more writes to the filesystem figuring that avoiding writes was essential to file recovery.

I stopped our service and brought down our server. I realized the loss almost right away and fortunately we did not have any users online at that moment. What I have done so far and where we are hosted - details If this is the case, we should be able to recover them. I think somehow that the directory that contains the sub-directories that have our jpeg files was unlinked. I anticipate that our loss is probably simple and may be recoverable. We had an unfortunate deploy and our media files (jpegs) are completely gone. I am working in a Dev Ops capacity for a service that manages jpeg files online.
