data-recovery – Tarik Billa

Can I rollback a transaction I’ve already committed? (data loss)

March 20, 2023 by Tarik

No, you can’t undo, rollback or reverse a commit. STOP THE DATABASE! (Note: if you deleted the data directory off the filesystem, do NOT stop the database. The following advice applies to an accidental commit of a DELETE or similar, not an rm -rf /data/directory scenario). If this data was important, STOP YOUR DATABASE NOW … Read more

How to recover Git objects damaged by hard disk failure?

January 14, 2023 by Tarik

In some previous backups, your bad objects may have been packed in different files or may be loose objects yet. So your objects may be recovered. It seems there are a few bad objects in your database. So you could do it the manual way. Because of git hash-object, git mktree and git commit-tree do … Read more