Data recovery? Linux partition

Priapus · 9 Feb 2010 at 13:17

Howzit guys,

I am used to doing data recovery on Windows OS partiton drives. However I have been asked if I can do a recovery on a Linux partitioned hard drive.

Does anyone know any free software that I could run in Windows that would read/recovery the data or even if I have to do it ina Linux OS thats fine I guess.

any ideas guys

Much appreciated.

.walls · 9 Feb 2010 at 13:35

Mondo and bacula are excellent linux tools and both have client/server functions (although unlikely to be compatible with Windows!)

If you want purely data backup, then rsync would be a good choice.

Priapus · 9 Feb 2010 at 14:04

I think you've missed my question.

I am looking to recover data off a Linux partition.

.walls · 9 Feb 2010 at 14:13

aaahhh...

As in it's already broken and need to get the data off the drive...

Sorry - can't give any advice on that one!

tntcoder · 9 Feb 2010 at 14:13

http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-recovery/ That should be good for ext2/ext3 file systems.

Priapus · 9 Feb 2010 at 14:27

.walls said:
aaahhh...

As in it's already broken and need to get the data off the drive...

Sorry - can't give any advice on that one!

No worries bud - thanks anyway! :cool:

tntcoder said:
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-recovery/ That should be good for ext2/ext3 file systems.

Excellent, will give this a try, thank you!

accod · 13 Feb 2010 at 10:49

You might want to dd the contents off to another drive first before trying any recovery. Dd will copy the contents exactly, errors and all.