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Questions tagged [recovery]

Use this tag on any questions related to data recovery (in contrast to data restore).

Both the terms recover and restore to retrieving data from a backup. More specifically, recover refers to salvaging one or more files, while a restore usually refers replacing a complete system or hard drive from a full system backup.

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Difference between steal and force in database

It is said that no steal means that transaction s updated buffer is not written to disk before that transaction commits and no force has a similar definition then what's the difference between them?
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How to recover deleted iPython Notebooks

I have iPython Notebook through Anaconda. I accidentally deleted an important notebook, and I can't seem to find it in trash (I don't think iPy Notebooks go to the trash). Does anyone know how I can recover the notebook? I am using Mac OS X. Thanks!
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How do I fix Postgres so it will start after an abrupt shutdown?

Due to a sudden power outage, the Postgres server running on my local machine shut down abruptly. After rebooting, I tried to restart Postgres and I get this error: $ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data restart pg_ctl: PID file…
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Lost important .py file (overwritten as 0byte file), but the old version still LOADED IN IPYTHON as module -- can it be retrieved?

While managing several different screen sessions with vim open in many of them, in the process of trying to "organize" my sessions I somehow managed to overwrite a very important .py script with a 0Byte file. However, I have an ipython instance open…
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Clarification on Windows Service Recovery Actions Settings

I am looking at the recovery actions settings and there are a couple of things that I need clarified. If I have 0 days as my reset fail count after, and have the following as my actions: Restart the Service - on first failure Restart the Service -…
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How to overcome the anti-pattern "Big Ball of Mud"?

What causes a computer program to turn into a Big Ball of Mud? Is it possible to recover from this anti-pattern? Are there proven refactoring methods that can be applied?
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Handling panics in go routines

I understand that to handle panic recover is used. But the following block fails to recover when panic arises in go routine func main() { done := make(chan int64) defer fmt.Println("Graceful End of program") defer func() { r :=…
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Git - recover intermediate commits after squash

I have squashed several commits into one commit. One of the commits before the squash included debug prints and a later commit that was squashed together with it removed those prints. Is there any way to recover them?
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Error: Cannot find module 'mkdirp'

while i trying to run a nodeJS file am getting following error in my Ubuntu machine node.js:201 throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick ^ Error: Cannot find module 'mkdirp' at…
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Help! Recover Eclipse file

I'm using eclipse, when i close eclipse, it ask me save a file, I press yes and eclipse shuts down. When I open my computer I see that the drive only has 3 bytes left, and I get a bad feeling. I go to my file and oh my god, it's totally blank, size…
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Windows Spanned Disks (LDM) restoration with Linux?

Is it possible to read Windows 2008 LDM partitions in Linux? We have five 512GB LUNS exported through ISCSI to a dead Windows 2008 and this box doesn't want them anymore. Windows believes they are now raw devices... So I'd like to read the…
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How to recover from svn hotcopy backups

Our current backup process is doing a SVN HOTCOPY every night, to a backup location on a different machine. Can I somehow recover from that backup and retain all revision history? Or do I need to use the svn dump/load? Thanks, Chandrajeet
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Can I use mysql binlog from master as relay log on slave?

I have following Mysql replication schema: A(master)->B(slave/master)->C(slave) A writes binlog B reads A's binlog applies relaylog and writes it's own binlog C reads from B and applies. If replication become broken by some reason (A->B) can I…
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Difference between fastboot and recoverymode in android

I just wants to know the difference between fastboot and recovery modes in android device. So far my understanding I thought that Recovery mode : contains a small Linux image, having some simple User interface with few recovery options. fastboot…
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SQL Server 2005 Database 'In Recovery'

I restored a 35Gb database on my dev machine yesterday and it was all going fine until this morning when my client app couldn't connect. So I opened SQL Management Studio to find the database 'In Recovery'. I don't know a huge amount about this…
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