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Reclamation of deleted or otherwise removed/corrupted data (files)

Reclamation of deleted or otherwise removed/corrupted data (files). The level of complexity of such a task varies from simply "Restoring" a file (from a Recycle Bin) to using advanced tools to analyze the filesystem and rebuild previously deleted/corrupted data.

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Accidentally formated external usb harddrive (500GB) with bootable iso (1GB), how can I recover my data?

I was attempting to create a bootable usb thumbdrive from the ubuntu install cd using UNetBootin. Unfortunately, I accidental wrote the live cd to my 500gb usb external drive (which was almost completely filled with important files). I noticed I had…
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Stuck in initramfs, need to recover data

I'm running Ubuntu LTS 10.4 on Virtualbox. Out of nowhere, I'm unable to boot into my VM and I get stuck in initramfs. I have another Ubuntu VM that I can mount the virtual HD to. I just want to copy over my files so I do not lose them. I attached…
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Recovering Accidentally Destroyed LVM2 Information

Ok, so I'm stupid and made a serious and grave mistake. On my linux box running Ubuntu 10.10, I have a 1.5TB RAID array that I had originally setup using the instructions located here: http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php The RAID array is a…
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Does using vmdks improve / mitigate the risk of forensic data recovery?

If I want to mitigate the risk of data recovery from a disk drive resold as surplus equipment, how would the use of virtual disks assist? For example, if I have half a dozen vmdks on a 1TB drive (for sake of argument, presume they've been added to…
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How to make a byte for byte copy of a drive?

Possible Duplicate: Using DD for disk cloning What's the easiest and most reliable, risk free, way of making an exact copy of a hard drive? We have a drive that's been messed up by someone re-initialising RAID on it and before we start playing…
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Tar not preserving Owner/Permissions

I have a file system backup in a tar archive, created with: cd / && tar -cpz -f mybackup.tgz usr/local Doing a tar tvzf mybackup.tgz yields: -rw-rw-r-- otto/otto 450 2010-04-15 22:08 usr/local/alpha-4.5/pkg/conf/PLATFORM/sparc drwxr-xr-x…
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Recover deleted files in linux , can debugfs command solve my purpose?

I am trying to list deleted files from my ext3 file system. debugsfs command with -ld option , suppose to list deleted files but it only listing current existing files and folder. Is any alternate way without any third party tools to recover deleted…
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Recover bad data from RAID-0

I have two hard drives that were setup as RAID-0 and NTFS, one of the hard drives has bad sectors. does anyone know if I ran Spinrite to move those bad sectors, will I still be able to access the RAID-0? I am using RAID Reconstructor but it found…
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Recover emails from unused legacy exchange server

I've been presented with an old MS Exchange 2003 server which contains a lot of important emails. How would I best recover these emails? My dream scenario would look something like this: Install program y on old server. Program y locates .xxx files…
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Accidentally rm -rf /usr/* as root, what now?

A colleague of mine accidentally deleted /usr/* data by running: rm -rf /usr/*. And it's now a big issue. We had a lot of good data on that machine. Most of the commands are not working as a result. Is there anyway I can recover the machine? I'm not…
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Backup on a remote server

We have just solved the problem of stolen server by hiding an external backup unit in a different room of our office. Now the problem is fire and all the other possilble disaster that can happen. We used to do an FTP upload of a password portected…
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Recovering a broken subversion repository?

Due to a failing harddrive on my windows homeserver where my personal subversion repository resided im having some missing repository files (the files in db/revs/n/nnnn), and thus my checkins/checkouts are failing… Is there any hope of recreating…
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Restoring data from corrupted ext4 partition under LVM - fsck or repair bad blocks first?

I am using Linux on my notebook. My notebook recently fall on ground and now I am trying to save as much data from my damaged hdd as possible. I can boot notebook from Linux live CD. Long story short: one ext4 partition is not mountable, but I can…
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How secure is cloud computing?

By secure, I don't mean the machines itself and access to it from the network. I mean, and I suppose this could be applied to any kind of hosting service, when you put all your intellectual property onto a hosted provider, what happens to the hard…
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Rescue data from damaged hard disk

I have a 500 GB hard drive with one NTFS-partition on it. I can mount it with Ubuntu and view the contents. But when I try to copy something, I get an I/O error. Ok, I tried to make its image with dd. I/O error as soon as it starts. I have installed…
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