What is the most black magic you've seen someone do in your job?

Recently hired a VMware guy, former Dell employee from/who is Russian

4:40pm, One of our admins was cleaning up the datastore in our vSAN and by accident deleted several vmdk, causing production to hault. Talking DBs, web and file servers dating back to the companies origin.

Ok, let's just restore from Veeam. We have midnights copies, we will lose today's data and restore will probably last 24 hours, so ya. 2 or more days of business lost.

This guy, this guy we hired from Russia. Goes in, takes a look and with his thick euro accent goes, pokes around at the datastore gui a bit, "this this this, oh, no problem, I fix this in 4 hours."

What?

Enables ssh, asks for the root, consoles in, starts to what looks like piecing files together, I'm not sure, and Black Magic, the VDMKs are rebuilt, VMs are running as nothing happened. He goes, "I stich VMs like humpy dumpy, make VMs whole again"

Right.. black magic man.