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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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Recovering files from archive of CVS *,v files

I trying to recover some old source code (plain text) from a bunch of files that used to be managed with CVS. I have a directory containing all of the source code files in CVS's *,v file format. This looks mostly like the original files, but there…
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Issues recovering a .frm file using mysqlfrm

Hopefully someone can help me, I've researched many of the recovery answers on stackoverflow. I did the mistake of copying the data folder from mysql and pasting it in the new wamp 2.5 mysql/mysl5.6.17/data folder. When I click on a table it gives…
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How do I restore from a drop database command using a mysql binary log?

How can I restore a mysql database that was dropped using a "drop database" command? I have access to binary logs which should make this type of rollback possible.
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How to recover a .py file from PyInstaller .exe?

I lost my original python code that I've been working on for months, it's packed into an .exe using PyInstaller and that's all I have. I tried this: Exe to python with pyinstaller? I was able to extract a file that has some of my source code in it…
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Recover unreferenced commits from remote git repository

Here's the situation : some commits have been done in a remote repository. Unfortunately, someone did push -f such that no remote branch references these commits anymore. To make matters worse, I don't have those commits in my local clone. My goal…
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How to recover repository using SVN hotcopy?

Okay. I used svn's hotcopy to make incremental back-ups, now how do I test that the hotcopies will work properly? I searched the posts here regarding hotcopy. Most of them seem to just be encouraging the use of the svn hotcopy, but not talking…
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SQLite3 Data rescue on Error: Database disk image is malformed

Background I have a database thats been corrpted, and want to save so much of the data possible. I have tried sql dump the data with numerous of tools, without success. Always same error message: Error: database disk image is malformed I'm…
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Recovering files from Git objects

I obliterated all my work and would prefer not to explain how. The only thing I have left are the git objects. More then anything I would like to recover some of the loss packed Image files. From the size of the object files I can tell which ones…
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Recover corrupt zip or gzip files?

The most common method for corrupting compressed files is to inadvertently do an ASCII-mode FTP transfer, which causes a many-to-one trashing of CR and/or LF characters. Obviously, there is information loss, and the best way to fix this problem is…
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How windows recovery work with failure count?

I am using the following command to configure the service failure recovery sc failure "service" actions= ""/60000/restart/60000/run/120000 reset= 60 command = "\"c:\\windows\notepad2.exe (used notepad2.exe just for testing) From the Microsoft…
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Kill a stuck thread on a running VM (JBoss Instance) in Java?

A bug in a third party library is causing an infinite loop in a worker thread on a JBoss instance of mine. Do you know of a way to kill this "stuck" thread without restarting the server? We'd like to be able to recover from this until a fix is…
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What REG-BINARY to set for FailureAction for service

I have a service for which I want to set Data value for FailureAction in registry. Currently there is value set in registry. Value is set using RegKey.SetValue("FailureActions", Value); I would like to know: 1) How these bytes of Value correspond…
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Read data from damaged media

Is it possible to read damaged media (cd, hdd, dvd,...) even if windows explorer bombs out? What I mean to ask is, whether there is a set of APIs or something that can access the disk at a very low level (below explorer?) and read whatever can be…
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Android - AlarmManager recovery

Thanks to TasKiller I have reliable way to shutdown updates coming to my AppWidget from the AlarmManager! Now, sarcasm aside, how do I recover from such event? So far I only see that the Alerts are resurrected only after rebooting the phone. I can…
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Recovery from optical media ignoring read errors

I have backups of files archived in optical media (CDs and DVDs). These all have par2 recovery files, stored on separate media. Even in cases where there are no par2 files, minor errors when reading on one optical drive can be read fine on another…
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