Scalpel is a data carving and indexing application. Scalpel is not under active maintenance. This is free and open source software.
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Category: System Software
Foremost – recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures
Foremost is a terminal-based program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.
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Redo Rescue – backup and recovery solution
Redo Rescue can backup and restore an entire system in minutes, with a simple point-and-click interface. Free and open source software.
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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++ – filesystem and storage performance benchmark
Bonnie++ benchmarks filesystem and storage performance with tests for sequential I/O, random seeks, small-file operations and drive zones.
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GNOME Disks – view, modify and configure disks and media
GNOME Disks is a graphical utility for inspecting, partitioning, formatting, benchmarking, monitoring, and configuring storage devices.
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GSmartControl – graphical tool for inspecting drive health
GSmartControl provides graphical SMART monitoring for hard drives and NVMe SSDs, including health indicators, self-tests and error logs.
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Smartmontools – monitor storage drive health using SMART
Smartmontools monitors ATA, SCSI and NVMe drive health using SMART data, self-tests, error logs and automated warnings from smartd.
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hdparm – inspect and configure ATA drive parameters
hdparm inspects and configures ATA and SATA drive parameters on Linux, including cache settings, power management and disk information.
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NVMe-CLI – command-line management tools for NVMe devices
NVMe-CLI provides Linux command-line tools for inspecting NVMe SSD health, managing namespaces, running self-tests and configuring NVMe-oF.
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sg3_utils – utilities for managing SCSI devices
sg3_utils provides command-line SCSI utilities for device inquiry, capacity reporting, error analysis, diagnostics and storage testing.
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sdparm – inspect and configure SCSI device parameters
sdparm inspects and modifies SCSI device settings, including mode pages, caching, power management and device identification data.
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