Package magicrescue: Information

Binary package: magicrescue

Version: 1.1.9-alt1.qa1

Architecture: i586

Build time:  Apr 16, 2013, 10:54 PM

Source package: magicrescue

Category: Text tools

Download: magicrescue-1.1.9-alt1.qa1.i586.rpm

Home page: http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s042078/magicrescue

License: GPLv2+

Summary: Magic Rescue is a file carving tool that uses "magic bytes" in a file contents to recover data

Description: 

Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover and
calls an external program to extract them. It looks at "magic bytes" in file
contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for recovering a
corrupted drive or partition. As long as the file data is there, it will find
it.

It works on any file system, but on very fragmented file systems it can only
recover the first chunk of each file. Practical experience (this program was not
written for fun) shows, however, that chunks of 30-50MB are not uncommon.

Maintainer: Victor Forsyuk

ACL:
@qa_p7