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Recover lost video

Hi. I have a Q see 16. And am trying to recover a video from Aug of this year. But, I believe has been taped over. Can I still recover this video?
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If it was actually recorded over (as in the system ran out of disk space and wrote over it) then it's pretty well gone.

If it was deleted because of some policy to delete old videos by date (even if there is space on the hard drive) then you have a chance of recovery.

I would expect that this uses some form of Linux.  If it were Windows-based, I'd be pulling out the drive, connecting it as a second drive on a Windows computer, and using recovery tools on it.  One of the first things to do would be to see if the drive was nearly full.  I would think the same approach would be the case here, but with a Linux computer.

You'll likely find someone here who knows Linux (I don't) who could assist with that.
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