Celik wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Bill Oliver <vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
The last time this happened to me, I had some luck using sleuthkit:
http://www.sleuthkit.org/
As you noted, installing new things on your computer is destructive to
deleted files. It's a good idea, if you can, to make an image of your disk
asap and then work on that image. What I have done is put a live distro on
a flash drive, boot from the live distro, dd the native disk to an external
drive, and then run the recovery utils on the image.
billo
Bill, re-did the work. Because it was fresh in my mind, it didn't take as long.
The tasks you have mentioned (i.e. making an image of disk and dd) are new to
me. I'll try to follow the steps with some dummy files on my laptop. The laptop
is for testing new programs if anything goes wrong won't cause much heart-ache.
Please excuse me if this going to be a silly question, so can we use dd for
making backups of our files/computer? or can we make an image of our disk solely
for a backup purpose?
You can use dd to make a bit for bit backup of your drive to an identical (or
larger) drive. That is useful, but quite time consuming. To back up the files
you can use tar in more cases, assuming you are not doing anything truly bizarre
with extended attributes, access control lists, (shudder) using hard links to
directories. A normal filesystem backs up far faster and smaller using a tool
like tar or one of the specialized packages.
For keeping a full backup I highly recommend looking at rsync, which can keep
your files backed up in a very efficient manner.
Note that if you choose "cloud backup" from one of the vendors, on many network
connections the upload speed is far slower than the download speed, and you
spend a lot of time backing up. Mentioned because people forget until they try
to do something large and it takes forever.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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