From f3aa420f1e39a6ff402429a0e13922fa64bc179f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Carpenter Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:20:09 -0400 Subject: Published data recovery --- posts/my-preferred-method-for-data-recovery.md | 53 -------------------------- 1 file changed, 53 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 posts/my-preferred-method-for-data-recovery.md (limited to 'posts/my-preferred-method-for-data-recovery.md') diff --git a/posts/my-preferred-method-for-data-recovery.md b/posts/my-preferred-method-for-data-recovery.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1388de9..0000000 --- a/posts/my-preferred-method-for-data-recovery.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ ---- -permalink: "/posts/{{categories}}/{{slug}}" -title: My Preferred Method for Data Recovery -categories: ["life"] -tags: - - data - - file - - photo - - recovery - - linux - - photorec -excerpt_separator: "\n\n\n" -layout: post.liquid -is_draft: true ---- - -This week Amy plugged in her flash drive to discover that there were no files -on it. Weeks before there had been dozens of large cuts of footage that she -needed to edit down for work. Hours of recordings were seemingly gone. And the -most annoying part was the drive had worked perfectly on several other -occasions. Just not now that the footage was actually needed of course. -Initially it looked like everything had been wiped clean, however both Amy's -Mac and her PC thought the drive was half full. It's overall capacity was 64GB -but it showed only about 36GB free. So there still had to be data on there if -we could find the right tool to salvage it. - -Luckily this wasn't the first time I had to recover accidentally (or magically) -deleted files. I had previously done so with some success at my tech support -job, for some college friends, and for my in-laws' retired laptops. So I had a -pretty clear idea of what to expect. The only trick was finding a tool that -knew what files it was looking for. The camera that took the video clips was a -Sony and apparently they record into `m2ts` files, which are kind of a unique -format in that they only show up on Blu-Ray discs and Sony camcorders. Enter my -favorite two tools for dealing with potentially-destroyed data: `ddrescue` and -`photorec`. - -`ddrescue` is a godsend of a tool. If you've ever used `dd` before, forget -about it. Use `ddrescue`. You might as well `alias dd=ddrescue` because it's -that great. By default it has a plethora of additional options, displays the -progress as it works, recovers and retries in the event of I/O errors, and does -everything that good old `dd` can do. It's particularly good at protecting -partitions or disks that have been corrupted or damaged by rescuing undamaged -portions first. Oh, and have you ever had to cancel a `dd` operation? Did I -mention that `ddrescue` can pause and resume copies? It's that good. - -`photorec` is probably the best missing file recovery tool I've ever used in my -entire life. And I've used quite a few. I've never had as good results as I've -had with `photorec` with other tools like Recuva et. al. And `photorec` isn't -just for photos, it can recover documents (a la Office suite), music, images, -config files, and videos (including the very odd `m2ts` format!). The other -nice thing is photorec will work on just about any source. - -- plus scan whole partition -- cgit v1.2.3