https://github.com/jbj/magicrescue

Not under active development. Magic Rescue was a tool for recovering files from a corrupted file system.
https://github.com/jbj/magicrescue

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Not under active development. Magic Rescue was a tool for recovering files from a corrupted file system.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jbj/magicrescue
• Owner: jbj
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2018-10-15T15:03:50.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-09-12T16:00:40.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-16T17:01:09.564Z (5 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 310 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
Magic Rescue

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Deprecation notice

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This software is no longer under active development. I will consider merging

pull requests, but I will not myself address any issues raised in GitHub. I

cannot guarantee that I will make new stable releases.

Security notice

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Magic Rescue should only be run in a sandboxed environment. It was written in

2004, a time where the internet was a friendlier place. Magic Rescue works by

invoking programs written in unsafe languages with input from arbitrary data

found on your disk. This exposes a large attack surface to any attacker that is

able to place arbitrary data inside files on your disk, including your browser

cache.

Overview

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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.

Find the latest version at https://github.com/jbj/magicrescue

Building

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There are no build requirements other than a C library and a UNIXish system.

To use the dupemap(1) utility, you must have the NDBM compatibility header,

which either comes with your system or the development libraries of GDBM or

Berkeley DB.

./configure && make && make install

The "make install" step is optional.

Using

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man magicrescue