Today’s item is a link to this heartwarming tale of data being recovered off an old Apple 610 machine. Chris DiBona had a situation where the old Apple box was dying, and he needed to save invaluable family recipes. Possibly not the most life threatening situation.. until you go to make an apple […]
Bare Bones Backup
Posted in July 23rd, 2007
When you’re doing a backup without access to fancy tools such as rsync or BRU you can always rely on standard CLI utilities to be installed on Linux. For a simple backup, use a LiveCD and boot to their desktop.
Once the desktop is up, open up a console terminal. Switch to the parent […]
Creating a Drive Image
Posted in July 17th, 2007
So far I’ve talked about using various programs on drive images, but haven’t pointed out a tool for creating them.
Drive images are a copy of an entire drive, generally taken when it’s offline. Generally these are used for backups, forensic analysis, or in an attempt to save a drive with bare metal recovery methods.
A […]
Data Recovery and Forensics with Foremost
Posted in July 16th, 2007
Foremost, designed by the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations to aid in investigative work, offers a way of directly recovering data. Instead of looking through a file system based on its structure and then following file system references to a specific file, Foremost does a raw read of a block device […]
Preventing Data Disasters Through Backups with Mondo Rescue
Posted in July 13th, 2007
Recovery measures are good and well, but the best measure for data recovery is a good backup. Your systems will eventually fail, that we can be sure of.
So before you get to the point where you’re trying to do a bare metal recovery, why not back the data up? That’s where programs like […]
Welcome to Linux Recovery
Posted in July 13th, 2007
Hello, and welcome to the new LinuxRecovery website. In the coming weeks we’ll be posting news and articles pertaining to restoring data on and using Linux!
We’re very excited about this new forum for spreading the knowledge, and hope to offer up pointers to programs that’ll help you get systems back on track. Daily news and […]
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