Multi Purpose Recovery Tool (Recommended)

• Install

apt -y install testdisk

• Usage

Manual: https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk_doc/scripted_run.html#automating-recovery-using-photorec

Formats: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Formats_Recovered_By_PhotoRec

photorec /d /path/to/recovery /path/to/device
photorec /d /path/to/recovery /path/to/rawfile
photorec /d /path/to/recovery /path/to/imgfile

• Example usage with MooseFS chunk files

Via this tool, from MooseFS chunk files can be restored all files only with size <64MB

1. Download restore.sh script from this repo

git clone https://github.com/asyslinux/irec && cd irec && chmod a+x restore.sh
mkdir -p /path/to/prepare && mkdir -p /path/to/recovery

2. Restore files from MooseFS chunk files

Restore all files with size smaller than 64MB:

find /mnt/hdd-1/mfschunks/ -type f | xargs -i bash -c 'photorec /d /path/to/prepare/ /cmd {} partition_none,fileopt,everything,enable,search 1>/dev/null && ./restore.sh /path/to/prepare /path/to/recovery'

Restore all jpg images with size smaller than 64MB:

find /mnt/hdd-1/mfschunks/ -type f | xargs -i bash -c 'photorec /d /path/to/prepare/ /cmd {} partition_none,fileopt,everything,disable,jpg,enable,search 1>/dev/null && ./restore.sh /path/to/prepare /path/to/recovery'

Restore all jpg images with size greater than 256KB and smaller than 64MB:

find /mnt/hdd-1/mfschunks/ -type f -size +262144c | xargs -i bash -c 'photorec /d /path/to/prepare/ /cmd {} partition_none,fileopt,everything,disable,jpg,enable,search 1>/dev/null && ./restore.sh /path/to/prepare /path/to/recovery'