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====== Data Recovery ======

===== Hard Drive =====

==== Linux ====

http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue

http://www.gnu.org/s/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

=== LVM and Linux RAID Howto ===

The increased use of virtualization has made common the situation where you have layers of drives, partitions, RAID, logical volumes then more partitions, RAID and LVs on top of the first layers.

Central to recovering data is the use of //kpartx// to find and activate the additional partitions. 

Primary link: http://blog.normation.com/2011/04/07/mounting-partitions-stored-in-a-logical-volume-or-a-disk-image/

http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SMEServer_LVM_Recovery_using_Knoppix_LiveCD

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874

=== ddrescue Howto ===

http://www.debianadmin.com/recover-data-from-a-dead-hard-drive-using-ddrescue.html

==== Tools ====

=== testdisk ===

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

http://www.howtoforge.com/data_recovery_with_testdisk

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