recovery

Can I recover a file in linux which i accidentally did an "rm" on?

Do you know of any tools/commands by which I recover files which I accidentally removed? ...

SQL Physical Database File Location (Recovery)?

I just recently changed out all my hard drives and in the process of setting up some projects again I noticed that the database file I was backing up was actually the wrong file as it only contains 30% of the database that I had running. I have my old drives and all the data should be intact but I've been unable to actually locate the co...

What's your disaster recovery plan?

And what would you recommend for an ASP Net web application, with a not so large SQL server database (around 10Gb)? I was just wondering, is that a good idea to have an Amazon EC2 instance configured ready to host your app in an emergency? In this scenario, what would be the best approach to keep the database updated (log shipping? man...

How can I write a program that can recover files in FAT32

Hi, How can I write a program that can recover files in FAT32. Please give me a suggestion! ...

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 "/usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist Is server running? starting server anyway server starting $...

SQL Server recovery and bulk recovery mode confusions

Hello everyone, I have 2 confusions about SQL Server recovery and bulk recovery mode. whether recovery process itself will generate transaction log (here what I mean the logs are the logs generated by recovery process -- if any, and not generated by normal database DML/DDL operations)? Why? in the bulk recovery mode, whether the under...

Backup and Recovery Scenario

Hi All, Can anyone show me the step of restore and recovery of below scenario? I have used the differential backup (cumulative) everyday. RUN { RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE WITH TAG "whole_database_copy"; BACKUP INCREMENTAL LEVEL 1 CUMULATIVE FOR RECOVER OF COPY WITH TAG "whole_database_copy" DATABASE; } I have copies of all datafi...

Undo get latest version with Sourcesafe

Real urgent... is there a way to undo a get-latest-version from a project? I've been working on a project for a week, and never checked in the files I was working on. A colleague had to upload a version from my computer, so he used the get-latest-version (recursive) command on the whole solution. It seems my Visual Studio has a problem, ...

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 is 0 byte! :( I need that file back, can a free recovery program can work on this case? ...

Windows Services troubleshooting, recovery setting?

Hi there, Right now i have some sort of services application on windows server 2003 for inputting data from devices into database. Sometimes the services fail due to data error or anything else (database connection problem, internet connection down, etc) which i have to restart the services, right now the solution i provide for this pr...

What is a good way to recover from a fread() failure?

If a call to fread() returns 0 and ferror() indicates an error (vs. EOF), is it OK to retry the read or is it better to close and reopen the file? I can't start over entirely -- the input file has been partially processed in a way that can't be undone (say I'm writing out a chunk at a time to a socket and, due to existing protocol, have...

Is there any way to undelete a SQL server database and stored procedures?

Is there any way to undelete a SQL server database and stored procedures? Edit: No I don't have a backup. That is the reason I need help ...

How to recover mysql db from .myd, .myi, .frm files

How to restore one of my mysql db from .myd, .myi, .frm files? ...

Recovering file from the Visual Studio document cache?

I've just lost some code. I needed to move a couple of methods from one class to another so i hit save, cut the methods and VS crashed. Now it seems that the save happened after the cut since the code has been saved without those methods but the code isn't on my clipboard. So I'm left without the code and no easy way to get it back! ...

Recovery from page refresh in Web Applications?

Is there a standard or accepted way to recover from a page refresh in an Ajax web application? My interest now lies mainly in a web app with a Java (JSP/Servlet) Back end. My page is initially rendered from a JSP and then the user progressed through the interface using javascript events. Is there a design pattern which covers this, I'm...

How to recover corrupted Eclipse workspace?

I just managed to corrupt contents of my Eclipse .metadata directory. Starting up with eclipse -clean did not work out. Deleting .metadata and then importing all projects, plugins and setting does not sound too interesting. I ended up moving .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/ elsewhere and reimporting my projects only. Are t...

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? ...

Recovering a SVN Repository with out a dump file

I have an old repository that I have no dump file for. I do have the complete repository, though, and am hoping that I can get it running on a new system. I tried reading Recover svn from directory backup after server failure which gives me hope, but doesn't seem to have worked for me. Whenever I point TortoiseSVN or svnadmin at the rep...

Minimum set of files needed to recover a MySQL table (MyISAM and InnoDB)

When recovering a MyISAM table the only file that is strictly needed is the data file (tablename.MYD) - the rest of the files (the index file tablename.MYI and tablename.frm) can be recreated from the data file using REPAIR TABLE. Assume I'm using InnoDB (with the "innodb_file_per_table" setting) instead - what is the minimum set of fil...

svn recovery - restoring individual revisions

Regardless of how I got here, I'm in the position of restoring a SVN repository from backup. Unfortunately the backup was slightly corrupted and out of over 19000 revisions, approximately 80 are lost. The backup was a bzip2 file and I was able to use bzip2recover to recover about 99% of the blocks. These are 'known good' since they decom...