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DigitalHax

Allows you to recover data from "Destroyed" vm's

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
21GitHub stars
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What it is

Allows you to recover data from "Destroyed" vm's

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Observed mentions: 2013-12-31 00:07:02 UTC to 2013-12-31 02:17:02 UTC.

012013-12-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-31 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 31, 00:002013-12-31 01:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-31 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 31, 01:002013-12-31 02:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-31 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 31, 02:00

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Dec 31, 00:002013-12-31 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-31 01:00:00 UTC110
Dec 31, 01:002013-12-31 01:00:00 UTC2013-12-31 02:00:00 UTC000
Dec 31, 02:002013-12-31 02:00:00 UTC2013-12-31 03:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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So, this is going to overwrite lots of data on the block device you're trying to recover data from, resulting in a lot of repeated information and erasure of recoverable stuff. The correct answer is to redirect the output, and make find.sh output the gzipped data so you can pipe that to your local disk never touching the remote end. Edit: Here's the code. https://github.com/gregimba/DigitalHax/pull/1
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