Recover deleted files and undoing an rm * -rf command
On a Linux system using EXT3, EXT4, BTRFS or else there are multiple tools to recover deleted or lost files, the BTRFS file system makes the recovery process more easy and with a higher success rate compared to EXT3/EXT4 where file recovery can be sometimes impossible.
Recovery Tools - Command Line:
- testdisk (3)(5)
- photorec (3)
- extundelete (3)
Recovery Tools - GUI:
- R-Linux (2)(5)
- R-Studio (1)(5)(4)
- UFS Explorer (1)(5)(4)
- Recovery Explorer (1)(5)(4)
Info:
In my personal experience i get my data back using “UFS Explorer” and photorec
(1) = Not open source, not free
(2) = Not open source, free
(3) = Open source and free
(4) = Have NTFS support
(5) = Have directory structure feature