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How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998

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The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of production files. Artists and technical staff...

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How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998

The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of production files. Artists and technical staff...

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