Open Source Data Recovery Tools To The Rescue
30 Jun 2008 - 09:02:16

By Serdar Yegulalp Tue Jun 24, 4:00 AM ET At some point, it hits all of us. One day you're chugging merrily along, and then you're staring at a machine that won't boot -- a machine that just happens to contain everything of importance to you. While some degree of disaster is inevitable, it's how you cope with it that counts. While computers and file systems get more robust with each passing year, there's always going to be room for disaster recovery techniques. With open source solutions to help you recover from such messes, you're not tied to a proprietary product's costs or licensing agreements, and if you're so inclined you can rework the source code to meet your own needs. I'm going to explore various ways you can use open source solutions to recover data, bring dead systems back to life, and save your bacon in general. Many of the solutions described here run cross-platform (Lin/Win/Mac), but some of them are *NIX-only and will be described as such. Disaster Scenarios No two data disasters unfold in quite the same way. To that end, you'll want to take the appropriate recovery action depending on what went wrong. Simple recovery. This is the sort of recovery that you employ for files that have been freshly deleted -- typically by mistake, since accidental data deletion is the single biggest reason why files go missing. Most of the time your local "undelete" function or recycle bin / trash repository will keep you from doing anything really stupid, but some...

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