While it downloaded, she pried the failed server’s SSD out of its caddy and connected it via a USB adapter to her own laptop. Running a low-level data recovery script, she held her breath. The filesystem was a mess, but the core virtual hard drive file— Gargoyle.vmdk —was intact.

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