Magic Rescue
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Magic Rescue, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Magic Rescue's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Magic Rescue | Free | No paid plan or usage limits stated |
The facts
Each one read from Magic Rescue's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Build requirements
- Building requires a C library and a UNIXish system; dupemap additionally requires an NDBM compatibility header.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Development status
- The software is no longer under active development, and the maintainer does not promise to address GitHub issues or make new stable releases.checked 12 Oct 2026
- File recipes
- The project includes extraction recipes for formats including FLV, SQLite, rar, mbox, Nikon RAW, FLAC, Canon CR2 RAW, and OpenOffice documents.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Filesystem support
- It works on any file system.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Fragmentation limit
- On very fragmented file systems, it can recover only the first chunk of each file; the project says chunks of 30–50 MB are not uncommon.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The documented build and install sequence is ./configure, make, and make install, with installation optional.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The project describes the software as a tool for recovering files from a corrupted file system and as an undelete utility.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository identifies the software as GPL-2.0 licensed.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- Unix-like systems (the project specifies a C library and a UNIXish system to build; Linux support is not separately enumerated)checked 23 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it recognizes and invokes an external program to extract them.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery method
- It identifies files by magic bytes in their contents and can be used to undelete files or recover data from a corrupted drive or partition.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recovery sources
- Block devices,including drives or partitionschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Security
- The maintainer says Magic Rescue should only be run in a sandbox because it passes arbitrary disk data to programs written in unsafe languages, creating a large attack surface.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maintainer says they will consider merging pull requests but will not personally address issues raised in GitHub.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
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