Deleted files need to be recovered

Hi,
I have deleted some important files using rm -rf command, i searched on google i didnt find anyway to recover deleted files
My OS is OEL 5.3 with ext3 files system.
if you know any too which recover deleted files
Thanks
Alig

One may question if any commercial unformat and unerase product for Linux really work, and the answer will probably be that it all depends.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3: There is no support of deleted file recovery in file system design. Ext3 driver actively deletes files by wiping file inodes for crash safety reasons. This is why an accidental 'rm -rf ...' command may cause permanent data loss. There are still several techniques and some commercial software like UFS Explorer Standard Recovery version 4 for recovery of deleted or lost files using file system journal analysis; however, they do not guarantee any specific file recovery.
I have used recovery products on other filesystems like HFS+ and AdvFS which, similar to ext3, do not ship with system "unerase" utilities like the old DOS FAT. I was lucky occasionally and be able to recover lost files, but the chances are not very high, in particular for a system disk. I also depends to some degree how desperate and patient you are.

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