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What popular and tried data recovery options are there?

I know of these (none of which have GUIs afaik):

  • foremost - Forensics application to recover data
  • scalpel - A Frugal, High Performance File Carver
  • ext3grep - Tool to help recover deleted files on ext3 filesystems
  • e2undel - Undelete utility for the ext2 file system

Do you know of any that have desktop frontends? It's a tool you don't get to use much, reading manuals and searching for correct flags is not efficient.

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I've had excellent results with TestDisk. No gui, but the next best thing ... console menus! And an excellent wiki for use cases.

Many an accidentally deleted thumbdrive has been rescued.

Joseph Kern
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I don't think you'll find GUI frontends for these. Ext3grep is your best option for recovering files though: I used it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and was easily[1] able to recover all the pictures I had deleted.

Compared to a couple of years back, ext3grep has made life a lot easier. It takes some time, but it does the job and does it pretty well.

[1] Easily is relative to what it used to be, before ext3grep.

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Not exactly for Unix file systems (it does not depend on file systems at all) but I can recommend PhotoRec. You'll probably find it in testdisk package

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