recovery

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 are quite a bit of CVS specific header and revision information in there. Is there a simpl...

Window Service is not able to restart even though Recovery option is configured.

In my Window Service if Service is enable to connect to SQL Server it throws an exception and windows service will not start. To overcome this situation I have set recovery option of Windows Service to First Failure, Second Failure to Restart the Service, Reset fail count after 1 day and Restart Service to 0 minutes. What I want is when...

MySQL Wrong Restore Data Recovery

I'm almost certain about the answer, but the situation is so critical that I have to ask this question even though I'm %99 sure about the answer. Someone in our office made a backup of a MySQL database and he restored it on a wrong destination database overwriting everything on that destination (The schema of both databases were the sam...

Borland StarTeam 2008 - How to Recover file + file History

Hi all I accidently delete a file from the Starteam repository, I am able to view the file content on different view/configuration, and I am able to copy it and recheck-in the file but its history is important. Is it possible to restore the file along with its history? Thank you Sharon whipple ...

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 which has been marked to be overwritten. Or will I have to do header/footer file carving...

spring roo backup command lost my files

I generated spring roo project and modifies .jspx files to my styles. Unfortunately, when i used the backup command, spring roo was auto-generated files to the original one. Thus, my .jspx files are noy my styles. How should i do to recovery my files back from this command. ...

SQL Server Query Editors - any that warn of number of rows to be changed?

We're using SQL Server 2000 Query Analyser, and one issue we have is that very occasionally, when a user is updating our live database, they insert the incorrect/no(!) where clause. I know, not good, but it happens. Are there any editors that will warn of the number of rows that might be changed (if that is even possible) or even a way...

Why do System.IO.Log SequenceNumbers have variable length?

I'm trying to use the System.IO.Log features to build a recoverable transaction system. I understand it to be implemented on top of the Common Log File System. The usual ARIES approach to write-ahead logging involves persisting log record sequence numbers in places other than the log (for example, in the header of the database page modi...

Recovering from database downtime with streaming data

Hi, I have a situation where I receive a continuous stream of data. This data gets processed and transferred into a database (SQL Server). Now, I'm trying to code a model where if the db is down, the data is 'saved' locally (say in a file) -- and flushed out to the db when it recovers. I was wondering if there are any existing better ...

SQL Server Management Studio hangs on 100% during recovery

Hello, I want to restore a bak file in SQL server 2008 (the backup was created on a SQL server 2005). I set the recovery to WITH NORECOVERY, as I want to apply further transaction logs later. Meaning: the database should stay in restore mode, but the recovery-dialog in the management studio does not finish ever. It shows 100% for nearly...

Recovering deleted file on windows

I want to write a program to recover recently deleted files on windows 7.. Is there a function in windows API that recover files? If not, how can I begin in that? EDIT: Or an open source project for that? EDIT: I do not mean Recycle Bin!! ...

Recover an SVN repository with multiple missing revs/ files

I'm trying to recover an SVN repository after a hard drive failure. Unfortunately, the backup will not help as it was out of date. From 7,797 revisions, we lost only the following seven (7) files from the .../repo_dir/db/revs/7/ directory: 7437 (7-9 Dec 2009) (file also missing from revprops/ dir) 7461 (16 Dec 2009) 7519, 7520, 7521 ...

git clone overwrote an existing repo with the same name

it had a existing git checkout and had made some modifications, then i checked out the same repo and it overwrote the folder. Is there some way to get the old repos with the uncommitted changes? I had checked " git reflog --all " but it only gave me the most recent checkout. ...

Delete a Crashed Innodb table

Hi, I cannot delete/drop a crashed Innodb table. I get the following error: ERROR 1051 (42S02): Unknown table ‘accounts’ And if I want to create it I get the following error: ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can’t create table ‘accounts’ (errno: -1) This happens on my server after an accidental power failure. Regards ...

Windows Volume shadow copy error: 2155348129

Developing a VSS writer app: see this error during backup, initiated by windows backup tool, is there defined error codes for 2155348129 from Microsoft? "The backup operation that started at '‎2010‎-‎07‎-‎20T02:54:19.354000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being back...

Is there a way to recover registry entries that were deleted using RegDeleteKey?

[I am aware that this might actually better belong on superuser but I thought the programmer perspective might yield slightly better/faster results.] I have just written a sleek new configuration framework for our apps and everything was working just great. There was only one function left to test and that was deleting a registry key (r...

Is the data in a memory-mapped file guaranteed to flush sequentially?

I'm trying to implement a file storage mechanism which holds a number of variably-sized records in a single file with the guarantee that the set of records will always be recoverable into a consistent state, even if the system failed at a hardware level. So far, every scheme I've come up with pivots on writing data sequentially. Some pi...

Git repository was suddenly broken

My git repository was suddenly broken. I had been working as usual, but when I typed in git status to see my changes, it said: error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect data check) fatal: object 0dbfde4875a5f9c5fe25b4d1b9d34ab58986501e is corrupted What can I do to recover my repository? ...

MySQL table recovery from crashed server

I managed to wipe a server by mistake but PhotoRec was kind enough to recover the .frm and .myi files from the hard drive. I now have a desktop set up with the same version of MySQL to recover the data but my question is: what do I do? I have about 160 of these files. I haven't yet reinstalled the server in case I need anything else. Al...

how to extract files from a dd_rescue image

Hi , I have been able to create an image of a disk that had a lot of bad sectors . After few days of dd_rescue i eventually get almost all my data back. My partition is a ntfs filesystem . I have been able to mount the partition under linux ( via mount or loopdev ) but still wondering how to copy the valid files to another disk ( so sk...