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foremost

Notes

foremost is a forensics application to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive.[1]

Help Text

foremost version 1.5.7 by Jesse Kornblum, Kris Kendall, and Nick Mikus.
$ foremost [-v|-V|-h|-T|-Q|-q|-a|-w-d] [-t <type>] [-s <blocks>] [-k <size>] 
	[-b <size>] [-c <file>] [-o <dir>] [-i <file] 

-V  - display copyright information and exit
-t  - specify file type.  (-t jpeg,pdf ...) 
-d  - turn on indirect block detection (for UNIX file-systems) 
-i  - specify input file (default is stdin) 
-a  - Write all headers, perform no error detection (corrupted files) 
-w  - Only write the audit file, do not write any detected files to the disk 
-o  - set output directory (defaults to output)
-c  - set configuration file to use (defaults to foremost.conf)
-q  - enables quick mode. Search are performed on 512 byte boundaries.
-Q  - enables quiet mode. Suppress output messages. 
-v  - verbose mode. Logs all messages to screen

Example Usage

foremost -t jpeg -i /dev/sda1

Will search /dev/sda1 for deleted .jpeg files. Output is restored to <current_dir>/output/ . Within this output folder you will find an audit.txt logfile and a subfolder with restored files.

Links

[1] http://www.howtoforge.com/recover-deleted-files-with-foremost