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Questions tagged [data-recovery]

DO NOT USE THIS TAG if your question is about recovering data you lost on your device. Only use this tag for programming issues related to data recovery. Data recovery is a process of salvaging inaccessible data from corrupted or damaged storage when the data cannot be accessed in a normal way.

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Can I find mysql version from data files, need for data restoration

I have a very odd situation going on here. I had a linux box running ubuntu 8.10 and MySQL server with a Wordpress installation on it hosting an internal blog for our company. The machine that this was running on has crapped out, but I was able to…
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Extracting jpegs from a disk dump

I've got a 16GB memory card off someone that won't load properly (asks to be reformatted). I'm trying to get jpegs off it. I've run dd to dump the contents to a file, which worked splendidly. The file won't mount and be read, so the contents are…
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How can I recover HEAD^'S tree?

tl;dr: is it possible to recover HEAD^'s tree if it is deleted and not pushed beforehand and if everything else is intact? I accidentally deleted part of my .git. I'm not entirely sure what's missing. Upon discovering that git push didn't work, I…
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undo changes to a stored procedure

I altered a stored procedure and unknowingly overwrote some changes that were made to it by another developer. Is there a way to undo the changes and get the old script back? Unfortunately I do not have a backup of that database, so that option is…
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Visual studio lost current code on sudden crash

My visual studio 2010 crashed when some carelessness [bit of madness] mistakenly pressed start button and my Acer timeline got unstable. Two projects where open at the time, one in visual studio 2005 [I have both 2005 and 2010 installed].…
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How to recover deleted files in android?

I am assigned a data recovery application task. I have searched a lot but I could not find a single solution to the problem. I just saw the comment of a developer on Stack Overflow but it does not provide me sufficient information. His comment…
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Open imgcache.0 file programmatically

I would like to know if someone here could help me to 'open' imgcache.0 file located in Android\data\com.android.gallery3d folder programmatically. This is like a thumb file containing miniatures of old pictures, am I right? How can I open it?
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How to recover from git push -f?

I have done a git push -f on a branch and now lost the other persons work. I could able to see in my github that the other person work is shown (shown in activity), but not in the remote branch (where I pushed my changes). Unfortunately I don't…
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Point-In-TIme data restore on Amazon RDS

I have hosted my MySql database on Amazon RDS, and It has last automated snapshot. (e.g. yesterday midnight). Now situation is, I have deleted some of records from a very important table accidentally, and would like to recovery it. I have no…
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What's the correct manner for saving data on disk if the database is down, for later retry?

I need to make sure that data which comes into a service (java app) and needs to go into a database is not lost if the database is down. Is there a correct API I should be using from Java to do this? Should I just save a the data to files and reread…
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How to recover deleted/updated records in Informix?

I want to know if there's any way to recover the deleted or updated records updated accidentally in an Informix DB? The table structure is like this: ID NAME CODE 1 john yy7 2 Rany uu6 3 Mike hh7 The data has been updated to: ID NAME…
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how to restore postgresql DB without backup

Forgot to make a backup. Now I have harddrive with databases and new system with empty postgres. Can I somehow restore databases? by simple copy of files etc?
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How can I recover files after accidentally running "git clean -df"?

I have accidentally run git clean -df. It removed my files from my current commit, which I had yet to push. Now, in git status, those files are marked with D, which means "deleted". Is there any way to get those files back?
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Recovering the deleted data from Android SD Card?

I am trying to make an Android application which would try to recover deleted content from the SD Card. How feasible is it? I have the following methods in mind: Since, the files are not actually deleted, can I access the file system to see files…
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postgresql data recovery after multiply rows update

I am trying to retrieve data lost on wrong update query, using xlog and pg_xlogdump tool. The query was the following: update table set column1 =21 where column2 > column3 ( 1 condition was missed, so more rows were updated ) Example of 1 update…
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