Separate data from runtime
- Preserve original disks and files before opening them.
- Identify actual databases, documents, attachments and generated metadata.
- Recover schema, keys, relationships, code lists and encoding.
- Distinguish application binaries and licensing components from business data.
- Extract against copies using authorized access and available credentials.
This is data preservation, not license circumvention. Encrypted stores require legitimate keys or supported access.
Deliver neutral, validated records
Choose CSV, SQL or another format appropriate to relationships and blobs. Reconcile record counts, totals, attachments and representative workflows, and retain transformation documentation.
See obsolete-software recovery, proprietary extraction, migration services and the database pillar.