Well, how did you encrypt it in the first place? How does it usually get mounted? Magic Rescue works much the same way as Photorec -- scan every block to see if it's the start of a file -- but it's lot more sophisticated, using script-like plugins to recognize many types of files instead of recognizing a simple few hardcoded ones.
Code:
$ ls /usr/share/magicrescue/recipes
avi gimp-xcf gzip jpeg-jfif mp3-id3v2 perl zip
elf gpl jpeg-exif mp3-id3v1 msoffice png
$ cat /usr/share/magicrescue/recipes/jpeg-exif
# Extracts jpeg files with the Exif magic bytes. These usually originate from
# digital camaras or other devices.
# Depends on jpegtran from libjpeg: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libjpeg/
# See also jpeg-jfif
6 string Exif
0 int32 ffd80000 ffff0000
extension jpg
command jpegtran -copy all -outfile "$1"
$
This is also what makes it slower, since it does a lot more work on each block it reads, checking them all to see what they are.
You seem to be having lots and lots of data loss problems lately. A good backup might be an idea.
Like this when I installed Linux.
By logging in the normal way from the login menu. I don't think I should be using my system the normal way cause that will decrease the possibility of me getting my data back.
I wrote my own guide of how to decrypt an encrypted home directory. I wrote the Live CD method of opening a encrypted home directory.
The first time wasn't my fault. The second time I was stupid. I had a phone call while I was testing the rm -r command. I typed in the wrong directory while I was talking. I know I should have stopped what I was doing but I didn't.
Back the topic at hand. Should I use Magic Rescue or a different program?
I noticed this in a search for more security tools...
It IS possible to "undelete" a file; I suppose recover would be a better term for it. I suppose we've all made the boo-boo (that we all hopefully learned from) of deleting a file, and finding that you do not have a backup. I wouldn't... (1 Reply)
I am helping a company recover a system that is SCO OS 5.0.5 - they have their backup media, cd copies of SCO, but they do not have their license keys to install and SCO is being difficult in validating their license.
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Hiiii,
I have written a script which takes backup of some log files.
let say the backuplocation is ---
/abc/backuplocation
-rw-r--r-- 1 webmut2 spgroup 0 Jan 27 02:41 ansrpt23994.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 webmut2 spgroup 0 Jan 27 02:41 ansrpt3601.log
-rw-r--r-- 1... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have an user's home directory set to /home/A
And A contains the following directories B & C
Is there some way in solaris by which i can prevent the directories B and C from getting deleted by the user but the contents of the directories B & C can be deleted ?
Also i have... (2 Replies)
I've been working with SCO Unix for several years now but have never had to restore a system from a bare drive.
I have a bootable CD that contains what appears to be the correct files necessary to recover the boot and root filesystems.
I've got the BIOS setup such that the CD is the first... (12 Replies)
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One of my directory code where i have stored all my scripts have disappeared . I have no idea on how it got deleted.Could someone pls help me to track-back on what would have happened? I left the office yesterday and today when i just logged in to work with the scripts I could not find the... (13 Replies)
Friends,
I have accidently, as root, created a directory gabsf under /home. Now I cannot delete this thing, I have tried rm and rmdir, as well as explicit path name, but it is really undeleteable. Here is what ls -l says.
# ls -l /home
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 2 dawood dawood 2 Sep 5... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gabam
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
recover
RECOVER(1) General Commands Manual RECOVER(1)NAME
recover - recover a deleted file
SYNOPSIS
recover [device] [options]
OPTIONS -h, --help prints help
-a, --all no filtering; dump all deleted inodes
DESCRIPTION
recover recovers a file which matches some ext2 - info about the deleted inode by getting all the deleted inodes and filtering them. It's
based upon the Ext2Undeletion-howto by Aaron Crane. Using this utility, your chances to recover a lost file should increase a lot.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DELETED FILE
o Hard disk device name
o Year of deletion
o Month of deletion
o Weekday of deletion
o First/Last possible day of month
o Min/Max possible file size
o Min/Max possible deletion hour
o Min/Max possible deletion minute
o User ID of the deleted file
o A text string the file included (can be ignored)
BUGS
Please note that recover does not work with ext3 filesystems, it is strictly ext2-only. For further information on this, please read
/usr/share/doc/recover/README.ext2only
WARRANTY
There is no warranty.
SEE ALSO
debugfs (8)
AUTHOR
Tom Pycke (Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be)
WEBSITE
http://users.linuxbox.com/~recover
November 4 1999 RECOVER(1)
12-30-2010
