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Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted


My normal process for transferring video footage from my Sony cameras to my computer is as follows: - Run a sonydumpscript that copies all video files from my SD card to my local computer, then runs rm *.MP4in the folder on the SD card, and ejects it. - I copy the files onto my NAS, which has an hourly ZFS snapshot and also backs up that snapshot to my 2nd on-site backup server.

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