recovery

Value in 'svnadmin verify' cron job? (or is ''svnadmin hotcopy' enough)

Assuming a nightly 'svnadmin hotcopy' is run and validated, is there any value in periodically running one or both of?: svnadmin verify REPO-PATHNAME 2>&1 |egrep -v '^\* Verified revision [0-9]+\.' svnadmin dump -q --deltas REPO-PATHNAME >/dev/null (Any output from above is probably abnormal.) Does a successful 'svnadmin hotcopy' in...

How do you restore a corrupted object in a git repository (for newbies)?

I tried to open my repository today and it came up with no commit history. Everything I tried (git status, git log, git checkout...) threw an error about a corrupt object. I researched this problem online and found the article by Linus Torvalds, but got lost at the point where he found the broken link ID: none of my file IDs, tree or bl...

Move saved TortoiseSVN authentication to another machine?

Is there a way to move a saved login/password for TortoiseSVN to a network repository from machine to machine? Just got a new machine, know my username but don't recall my login to the repository. I know TortoiseSVN saves some auth info on the directories at %appdata%\Subversion\auth Moved over the file I found at svn.simple; I see my...

Help!!!How to estimate the value of their data recovery software ?

Hey everyone, I've got the answer of my last problem. Now, there is a new big problem! I have looked for much information, and found two companies which mainly match our requirement. Before everything ,I want to know more about their condition for making sure whether they are worth our purchasing. Pls give me more suggestions.Thank u soo...

How can I recover MySQL tables from data files?

Hi All, I've got a database (all MyISAM tables) and the machine where MySQL was running is no longer bootable. However, we have all the MySQL data files from the data directory. How can I restore the data from the MYD and FRM files, or whatever other files I should be looking at in the data directory? I've been doing some searching o...

Recover data from a dropped/truncated MySQL table

I just spend a few hours putting together a table full of data, and just decided to drop a WP installation in the same database. I expected WordPress to leave my table as it was and simply add the WP_* tables, but apparently the install wiped my database before installing the wordpress tables. I have full access to the server root. Is t...

Recover deleted Excel file

Hi all, A strange thing happened. A file my father was working in one of his Excel files. It sort of corrupted while he was saving it. Resulting in the file being deleted. Ofcourse he didn't delete the file himself. Needless to say he came to me to find a solution. So after some Googling I came up with a file recovery tool (PC Inspector...

design patterns for transactional services with checkpoints and recovery

I have a multistep process where each step does some network IO (web service call) and then persists some data. I want to design it in a fault tolerant way so that if the service fails, either because of a system crash or one of the steps fails, I am able to recover and re-start from the last error free step. Here is how I am thinking o...

How can I recover from switching to a non-existent branch in svn?

Hi all, How I got into a pickle: svn switch http://repo/project/rbanches/branchname/plugins/com.securemacprogramming.myplugin com.securemacprogramming.myplugin What this caused (in addition to "incoming delete on switch" in svn status): svn switch http://repo/project/branches/branchname/plugins/com.securemacprogramming.myplugin com....

Help recover windows xp

A few days ago, I got a virus in my windows xp home edition that was redirecting links on my browser. So I ran across a post that directed me to run AVG virus scanner in safe mode and then to turn off system restore, then restart to normal. I did as directed. I got the blue screen with the code c000021a. In my effort to fix this, I ran a...