Friday, March 29, 2024

RAID - Data Recovery with Open-Source Tools (part 7)

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This is part 7 of a multi-part series. See part 1 for the beginning of the series. Software RAID It's becoming increasingly common (i...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Wiping Drives - Data Recovery with Open-Source Tools (part 6)

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This is part 6 of a multi-part series.   See  part 1  for the beginning of the series. Wiping drives To properly wipe a drive so it is eff...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Cloning Drives - Data Recovery with Open-Source Tools (part 5)

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This is part 5 of a multi-part series. See part 1 for the beginning of the series. Cloning hard drives with dd_rescue In cases where a ...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Burn-in Testing for Spinning Disks - Data Recovery with Open-Source Tools (part 4)

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This is part 4 of a multi-part series.  See part 1 for the beginning of the series. Note that this was written long before solid state driv...
Friday, March 1, 2024

SMART - Data Recovery with Open-Source Tools (part 3)

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This is part 3 of a multi-part series.  See part 1 for the beginning of the series. SMART SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting T...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Drive Failures - Data Recovery with Open-Source Tools (part 2)

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This is part 2 of a multi-part series.  See part 1 for the beginning of the series. Note that this is material from 2010 and earlier that p...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Data Recovery with Open-Source Tools (part 1)

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This is material from a class I taught a long time ago.  Some of it may still be useful.  🙂 The original copyright notice: Copyright © 2009...