DataRecovery
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The facts
Each one read from DataRecovery's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Dependencies
- The source installation instructions list ddrescue, TestDisk, rdfind, UDisks2, and Polkit among the dependencies.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Disk space requirement
- The README warns that significant disk space is required because images are created before files are recovered.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Drive health
- The README lists SMART data monitoring as an application option.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Drive imaging
- For physical devices, it creates disk images in four ddrescue passes before PhotoRec recovers files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Drive monitoring
- The application can check SMART reports and monitor SMART data for drives.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Drive safety
- The workflow automatically detects and handles mounted partitions to prevent corruption.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Duplicate removal
- It can optionally remove duplicate files using rdfind.checked 12 Oct 2026
- File selection
- Users can choose which file types to recover and add custom file signatures.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies the project as GPL-2.0-or-later.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mount safety
- The application automatically detects and handles mounted partitions to prevent corruption.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- Linuxchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Pricing
- The repository page and README do not state a price or offer a trial.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- DataRecovery is a GTK4/Libadwaita frontend for PhotoRec that uses ddrescue to image drives before recovering files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery options
- Users can save images, remove duplicates, keep corrupted files, select file types, and add custom file signatures.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery scope
- The README says it recovers all files, not only deleted ones, and organizes them by file type.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery sources
- storage devices; disk image fileschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Recovery tools
- The project uses GNU ddrescue for imaging, PhotoRec/TestDisk for recovery, and optionally rdfind for duplicate detection and removal.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery workflow
- It can recover files from storage devices or existing disk image files, then organize recovered files by extension.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security changes
- The v0.6.0 release notes say privileged operations were hardened against unsafe device paths and symbolic-link attacks, with validation added for device paths, output locations, ownership IDs, and temporary directories.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Storage requirement
- The project warns that recovery requires significant disk space because it creates images before recovering files from them.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Linux availability
- The README provides installation instructions for openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux, plus building from source.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Linux distributions
- The README lists installation packages or instructions for openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The repository is published under the GitHub account koxt2.checked 12 Oct 2026
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