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Open Source Data Recovery Tools To The Rescue (InformationWeek)
InformationWeek has posted a
lengthy look at open source data recovery tools. "The authors
of TestDisk have created an excellent file-carving tool called PhotoRec,
which recovers many common file formats from pretty much any type of media.
This is about as essential a standalone file-recovery tool as you're going
to get. I tried it out on a camera card I'd written off as wiped out after
a recent trip, and managed to recover literally everything from the card --
both pictures and video. It wasn't able to recover some of the actual
filenames, but the files themselves were all perfectly readable."
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Open Source Data Recovery Tools To The Rescue (InformationWeek) Posted Jun 26, 2008 6:48 UTC (Thu) by jgsack@san.rr.com (guest, #33287) [Link] Nice post -- nice article. It also includes some forensic tools in addition to recovery.
Open Source Data Recovery Tools To The Rescue (InformationWeek) Posted Jun 26, 2008 23:15 UTC (Thu) by BackSeat (subscriber, #1886) [Link] Yes, nice article. Shame about the hyperbole, though - the statement that TestDisk was able to "recover literally everything" is followed by a statement of what wasn't recovered. Maybe I'm a grumpy old man expecting the definition of "literally" to mean what it always used to.
Open Source Data Recovery Tools To The Rescue (InformationWeek) Posted Jun 27, 2008 1:36 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] I guess "literally every last bit of the contents of the files" was too wordy. :)
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