Data Recovery

Create disk image

ddrescue

This command copies as much as possible from a failing drive into a disk image

ddrescue -n /dev/sdX copy.img rescue.map

The second round uses multiple tries in attempts to also rescue previously identified bad blocks.

ddrescue -d -r3 -n /dev/sdX copy.img rescue.map

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Recover Partition Table

TODO: testdisk

File Recovery

TODO: photorec

TODO: foremost

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