Foremost is a terminal-based program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures.
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Category: System Software
Redo Rescue – backup and recovery solution
Redo Rescue can backup and restore an entire system in minutes, with a simple point-and-click interface. Free and open source software.
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safecopy – data recovery tool
Safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a seekable, but problematic source.
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Knoppix – Live distribution
Knoppix is a bootable CD with a collection of open source Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and much more.
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Rescuezilla – Easy Backup, Recovery & Bare Metal Restore
Rescuezilla (formerly known as Redo Backup and Recovery) is so simple and user-friendly that anyone can use it.
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PhotoRec – file data recovery software
PhotoRec is a data recovery software tool designed to recover lost files from digital camera memory. It’s free and open source software.
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Finnix – system administration live CD
Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian.
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TestDisk – powerful free data recovery software
TestDisk is a powerful data recovery software. Designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.
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SystemRescueCd – system rescue disk
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick. It can also be booted over the network using PXE.
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Trinity Rescue Kit – live Linux distribution
Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is a live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines.
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Mondo Rescue – disaster recovery solution
Mondo is a reliable, disaster recovery solution. It backs up a Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Benchmark Tools
A benchmark is the act of running computer programs in order to assess the performance of computer hardware and software applications.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Web Servers
The main function of a web server is to display website content through storing, processing and delivering webpages to users. Here’s our verdict on the best free and open source web servers.
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Bonnie++ – benchmark suite software
Bonnie++ is an open source benchmark suite that is aimed at performing a number of simple tests of hard drive and file system performance.
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5 Best Free and Open Source CardDAV Servers
CardDAV (“Card Distributed Authoring and Versioning”) is a standardized address book client/server protocol.
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