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ewfrecover () LOCAL ewfrecover ()

NAME

ewfrecover — exports media data stored in EWF files

SYNOPSIS

ewfrecover [ -A codepage ] [ -l log_filename ] [ -p process_buffer_size ] [ -t target ] [ -hquvVx ] ewf_files

DESCRIPTION

ewfrecover is a utility to recover corrupt EWF files.

ewfrecover is part of the libewf package. libewf is a library to access the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF).

ewf_files the first or the entire set of EWF segment files

The options are as follows:

-A codepage

the codepage of header section, options: ascii (default), windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252, windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258

-h

shows this help

-l log_filename

logs recover errors and the digest (hash) to the log filename

-p process_buffer_size

the process buffer size (default is the chunk size)

-t target

the target file to recover to (default is recover)

-v

verbose output to stderr

-V

print version

-x

use the chunk data instead of the buffered read and write functions.

ENVIRONMENT

None

FILES

None

EXAMPLES

ewfrecover will ask the information it needs.

Recovering a corrupted image

ewfrecover corrupt.E01
ewfrecover 20120805

Export started at: Mon Aug 6 07:09:34 2012

This could take a while.

...

Export completed at: Mon Aug 6 07:09:34 2012

MD5 hash calculated over data:

d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

ewfrecover: SUCCESS

Trying to recover a non-corrupted image

ewfrecover notcorrupt.E01
ewfrecover 20120805

EWF file(s) are not corrupted.

DIAGNOSTICS

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

BUGS

Please report bugs of any kind on the project issue tracker: https://github.com/libyal/libewf-legacy/issues

AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

ewfacquire (1), ewfacquirestream (1), ewfexport (1), ewfinfo (1), ewfmount (1), ewfverify (1) libewf January 19, 2014 ewfrecover ()