Forum: Geek Forum
Topic: I F'ed Up
started by: Wiley

Posted by Wiley on Jul. 22 2002,23:31
I just realized I deleted a database.
FUX0R!!!!!
No backup  ..it's gone   ..I'm starting data recovery, hopefully nothing was written onto those sectors.  I realized it about a millisecond too late  ...damn I hate when I blow it.
Posted by Necromancer on Jul. 23 2002,00:36
i call for a minutes silence for so much porn being lost off of wileys "database" may we pray his wife never finds his collection again.
Posted by just_dave on Jul. 23 2002,01:39
/me crosses his fingers for Wiley

I had a guy do that to a music store database the day I was setting up the backup server.  Just thankfuly we had a partial backup .. he only had to re enter about 300 items and barcodes..

dave

edit: <noobness>Check the recycle bin</noobness>  I am not that big of a noob i just wanted to be stupid and I accomplished that.


Posted by Wiley on Jul. 23 2002,03:20
Quote (just_dave @ 22 July 2002,17:39)
Check the recycle bin

Um  ...I hope you are not seriously suggesting that I failed to look in the recycle bin  :angry:

/me checks recycle bin

Hey everybody  ...it looks like the Data Recovery was a success!!!

I wish that were the case  :(  I wrote the thing to a scratch drive on the network while I was testing some other stuff and deleted my scratch drive.  No recycle bin.  The database wasn't in production and wasn't in the backup routine but I had some live data in there.
Posted by just_dave on Jul. 23 2002,04:05
Quote (Wiley @ 22 July 2002,10:20)
Quote (just_dave @ 22 July 2002,17:39)
Check the recycle bin

Um  ...I hope you are not seriously suggesting that I failed to look in the recycle bin  :angry:

/me checks recycle bin

Hey everybody  ...it looks like the Data Recovery was a success!!!

I wish that were the case  :(  I wrote the thing to a scratch drive on the network while I was testing some other stuff and deleted my scratch drive.  No recycle bin.  The database wasn't in production and wasn't in the backup routine but I had some live data in there.

I knew better Wiley.... was yanking ya chain.  hehe on a network delete there is no recycle bin though .. except in older versions of novel there was like a dump que or something ... cant remember exactly.

Wish you could have saved it though.  Pisses me off when I do things like that.

dave
Posted by Beldurin on Jul. 23 2002,04:08
damn dude...sounds like the time my dumb ass reformatted my HDD after backing up everything but that one important directory that had the source files for the images I was working on...sounds just like that...except important.

Sorry, dude
Posted by Wiley on Jul. 23 2002,05:17
Update:
Recovered an older version of the database with a data recovery tool I had on another drive ...I'm not quite sure why I could get the older one (which was removed in June) and not the one that was wiped out today.  I didn't write anything to the drive before the recovery. ???  I'm missing a few hundred records, but at least it's something.  Ontrack works pretty damn good for being a cheap ass data recovery tool.  thumbs-up.gif
Posted by ic0n0 on Jul. 23 2002,08:01

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