[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

[Rich Elswick]

www.sluethkit.org although they are not the simplest to use, they are
pretty much the forensic industry benchmark as far as I can tell.

On 9/25/09, David McMillan <skyefire at skyefire.org> wrote:
>
> 	So, in my ongoing saga of failing hard drives (which is still ongoing)
> I finally looked at what data *did* det rsync'd before the source drive
> hit the floor.  And found that, out of my collection of thousands of
> pictures and photos (mostly JPGs), I've had a nearly 40% loss rate.  The
> files are still there, and seem to be roughly the right size, but
> image-viewing applications just show them as dimensioned 0x0 pixels.
> 	Does rsync have a history of messing up image files?  I *know* that
> (almost?) all of these corrupted images were good *before* they were
> rsync'd to the backup mirror.
> 	Anyway, *now* I need a good tool for doing mass recovery of corrupted
> image files.  Since they were all corrupted at the same time, my guess
> is whatever happened, it happened the same to all of them.  So if I can
> determine what happened, maybe I stand a chance of undoing it.
> 	Recs, anyone?  I've already ruled out moving to the back country of New
> Zealand and starting a technology-free fully-organic subsistence farm
> (technology just *hates* me this month....)
>
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