Data Recovery Software for Linux

nikeshp · 05-16-2011, 09:56 AM

can anybody tell me the best Linux Data Recovery Softwares available.

Thank you,
Nikesh
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TobiSGD · 05-16-2011, 10:13 AM

I would recommend testdisk/photorec for that.

Snark1994 · 05-16-2011, 10:13 AM

We'll be able to help you more if you tell us the circumstances

Are you trying to get back something you've rm'ed? Or have you damaged partition tables? Or has a partition become corrupt? Or something else?

nikeshp · 05-16-2011, 10:21 AM

I want to recover a directory which I deleted. I tried testdisk/photorec, but the file names are changing after recovered. I am looking for some other tool better than photorec.

TobiSGD · 05-16-2011, 10:30 AM

That the filenames have changed has technical reasons. The filename is stored in the inode that links to the specific file. This inode is deleted when the file is deleted. photorec scans the disk for known signatures of files and therefore can not know the filename.
I may be wrong here (and please correct me in that case), but I doubt that you will find something that can recover filenames.

Better make backups next time. You can read on your own website how to do that.

mariapeter12 · 05-23-2011, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

That the filenames have changed has technical reasons. The filename is stored in the inode that links to the specific file. This inode is deleted when the file is deleted. photorec scans the disk for known signatures of files and therefore can not know the filename.
I may be wrong here (and please correct me in that case), but I doubt that you will find something that can recover filenames.

Better make backups next time. You can read on your own website how to do that.

Thats true since inode is deleted the files that are recovered get renamed but that should not be major issue.

anyway apart from Photorec there are other good third party linux recovery software available Like Stellar Linux data recovery,
R studio for Linux

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-23-2011, 04:54 AM

Foremost is also good. However, as stated above, these are data carvers and will NOT recover file names.

nikeshp · 05-31-2011, 04:10 PM

Thank you for your replies

scottparisi14 · 06-14-2011, 04:27 AM

The best is one which recover your data successfully and for me Kernel for Linux is the best because it recovered all my data without errors. There are situations when a particular software is not able to recover your data but other can effectively, so don't judge any software before testing it. Almost all data recovery software provider provides trial version of their software using trial version a user can preview the recoverable files.