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Category: System Software
safecopy – data recovery tool
Safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic source.
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Knoppix – Live distribution
Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of open source Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and much more.
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Rescuezilla – Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore
Rescuezilla (formerly known as Redo Backup and Recovery) is so simple and user-friendly that anyone can use it.
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PhotoRec – file data recovery software
PhotoRec is a data recovery software tool designed to recover lost files from digital camera memory. It’s free and open source software.
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Finnix – system administration live CD
Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian.
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TestDisk – powerful free data recovery software
TestDisk is a powerful data recovery software. Designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.
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SystemRescueCd – system rescue disk
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick. It can also be booted over the network using PXE.
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Trinity Rescue Kit – live Linux distribution
Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is a live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines.
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Mondo Rescue – disaster recovery solution
Mondo is a reliable, disaster recovery solution. It backs up a Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition.
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Bonnie++ – benchmark suite software
Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.
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GSmartControl – hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool
GSmartControl is an open source graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART data.
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Smartmontools – control and monitor storage systems
The smartmontools package contains two open source utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems
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hdparm – get/set ATA/SATA drive parameters
hdparm is an open source, command-line, performance and benchmarking utility to set and view ATA hard disk drive hardware parameters.
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NVMe-CLI – NVM-Express user space tooling
NVMe-CLI is an NVMe management command line interface. This offers a powerful feature set that follows the NVMe specification
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sg3_utils – utilities that send SCSI commands to devices
The sg3_utils package contains utilities that send SCSI commands to devices. This is free and open source software written in C.
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sdparm – accesses SCSI device parameters
The sdparm utility accesses SCSI device parameters. This is free and open source software written in the C language.
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openSeaChest – perform various operations on SATA, SAS, NVMe, and USB storage devices
openSeaChest is a collection of comprehensive, easy-to-use command line diagnostic tools and programming libraries for storage devices.
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GPT fdisk – set of text-mode partitioning tools
GPT fdisk (consisting of the gdisk, cgdisk, sgdisk, and fixparts programs) is a set of text-mode partitioning tools.
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Immich is a simple to use backup tool for self-hosted photos and videos
Immich is a self-hosted photo storage and sharing service. If you don’t want your photos firmly under someone else’s control, you might like Immich.
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