Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution.
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Tag: data recovery
extundelete recovers deleted files from ext3 or ext4 partitions
extundelete is designed to undelete files from an unmounted partition to a separate (mounted) partition.
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ext4magic – recover deleted or overwritten files
ext4magic is a Linux admin tool.It can help to recover deleted or overwritten files on ext3 and ext4 filesystems.
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Scalpel – data carving tool
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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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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Essential System Tools: ddrescue – Data recovery software
This is the tenth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at ddrescue.
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Handy Disk Image Tools
There are a number of different ways of mounting an ISO image under Linux. The venerable mount command offers an easy solution. But if you need tools that offer more functionality for working with disk images, try some of the following excellent open source tools.
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