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Questions tagged [data-recovery]

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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I accidently dropped the mysql db

Today, i was absent minded and instead of droping the databases i wanted I wrote drop database mysql; What do i do now!?! i didnt do anything else since and i havent closed my session. Luckily this is just my local computer with no real data.…
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Need help recovering a corrupt SQL database

I have a very special case that I have been working on for several days. I have a very large SQL Server 2008 database (about 2 TB) that contains 500 filegroups to support very large partitioned tables. Recently we had a catastophic failure on one of…
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Foremost custom file type not accepted by -t argument

I'm trying to recover a deleted file on an ext3 file system using the foremost utility. The file I want to recover is a hpp C++ source code file. However, foremost does not automatically support the hpp file extension, so I have to add it to the…
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How can I back up and replicate a large MySQL database?

How can I backup a large database in mysql? And what is the best way to replicate the database? what i'm looking for is backing up large database with large amount of data in a small time limit then restoring it within a small time of limit??
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ZFS shows pool state FAULTED, but all devices are ONLINE; how can I recover my data?

Our 100TB NAS based on FreeNAS 8 was unexpectedly powered off due to power failure. After turning it on back, 100TB zpool "projects" was unmounted with state "FAULTED". I've tried zpool import -fFX, it was running for about 20 hours, but nothing…
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Recovering data from a failed SAS drive? (RAID0...yes, I know)

We have a HP DL360 server with a P400 controller, which has two 72GB 10K SAS drives in a RAID 0 configuration (yes, I know...RAID 0). The HP Model number for the drives is DG072A8B54 Recently, one of the two drives appear to have failed, and is no…
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How to recover data from a messed up drive (LVM written on top of Ext4)?

The previous administrator of a server that is now under my supervision made a mistake. He accidentally created a LVM volume (no more than pvcreate, I think, though not sure) on a disk that actually contained an Ext4 partition with data. How do I…
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ZPOOL replace defective disk in exported pool

Yesterday, I put a new disk into my server. Sadly, I didn't check the disk before of failures. I added it to my pool with the command zpool add nas /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31500341AS_9VS27Z4M-part1 Short after, the CPU-load of the server went…
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Windows Server wbadmin recover with commas

I want to do a recovery of files with commas in their names from the command line, ala: wbadmin start recovery -version:10/01/2013-12:00 -itemType:File -overwite:Overwrite -quiet "-Items:C:\Path\To\File, With Comma.txt,C:\Path\To\File 2, With…
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RAID Recovery after Firmware issue

This may be a duplicate but I think the situation is different. We were having problems with a HP MSA2000 SAN, speaking to support they suggested that we upgraded the firmware to the latest version and clear out one of the VDISKS which had a…
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e2fsck extremely slow, although enough memory exists

I've got this external USB-Disk: kaefert@blechmobil:~$ lsusb -s 2:3 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bc2:3320 Seagate RSS LLC As can be seen in this dmesg output, there is some problem that prevents that disk from beeing mounted: kaefert@blechmobil:~$…
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Recover NTFS data from a ZFS pool that was exposed as an iSCSI target

This was me being stupid and the data is by no means critical and is now a learning experience first, time saver second. I set up a 100GB iSCSI target via the bare bone instructions in napp-it. It's a volume LU. I then had my Windows 7 machine…
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Corrupt files' contents, while FS is OK

Looks like my USB HDD is old and corrupted: rsync: read errors mapping "path/to/file.jpg": Input/output error (5) Syslog: kernel: [58927.940676] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code kernel: [58927.940683] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Result:…
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Any way to recover ext4 filesystems from a deleted LVM logical volume?

The other day I had a proper brain fart moment while expanding a disk on a Linux guest under Vmware. I stretched the Vmware disk file to the desired size and then I did what I usually do on Linux guests without LVM: I deleted the LVM partition and…
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How to recover outlook emails

It has happened many times in my organization that some people have left in not really good terms. So when you go to check their computers you find that they normally delete their emails, sometimes you can find them in the deleted folder (lol) but…
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