[ubuntu-uk] Deja-dup & [lucky] backup

[Neil Greenwood]

On 31 May 2013 17:47, "J Fernyhough" <j.fernyhough at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 31 May 2013 16:14, Grant Phillips-Sewell
> <dcglug at phillips-sewell.co.uk> wrote:
> > then there are tools out there
>
> [citation needed]
>
> > which can scan each
> > block/sector of your drive to find the remnants of previous partition
> > structures, optionally re-write your partition table back to what it
found,
> > and then there are tools to recover filesystems after this. It can be a
> > long, drawn out process... or it can take 10 minutes, depending on the
size
> > of the drive, the amount of data and the amount of destruction.
> >
>
> But seriously, what do you recommend? It's useful to know before these
> things are needed. :)
>
> J
>

Testdisk and/or photorec.

There are even dedicated live distros that specialise i'n disk recovery, as
far as I remember.

Neil.
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