ewfrecover

NAME
ewfrecover - exports media data stored in EWF files

SYNOPSIS
ewfrecover [-A codepage] [-l log_filename] [-p process_buffer_size] [-t target] [-hqvVx] ewf_files

DESCRIPTION
ewfrecover is a utility to recover corrupt EWF files.

ewfrecover is part of the libewf package. libewf is a library to access the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF).

ewf_files the first or the entire set of EWF segment files

The options are as follows:

-A codepage
    the codepage of header section, options: ascii (default), windows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950, windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252, windows-1253, windows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or windows-1258

-h  shows this help

-l log_filename
    logs recover errors and the digest (hash) to the log filename

-p process_buffer_size
    the process buffer size (default is the chunk size)

-t target
    the target file to recover to (default is recover)

-v  verbose output to stderr

-V  print version

-x  use the data chunk functions instead of the buffered read and write functions.

ENVIRONMENT
None

FILES
None

EXAMPLES
ewfrecover will ask the information it needs.

  Recovering a corrupted image

    ewfrecover corrupt.E01
    ewfrecover 20120805
    Export started at: Mon Aug  6 07:09:34 2012
    This could take a while.
        ...
    Export completed at: Mon Aug  6 07:09:34 2012
    MD5 hash calculated over data:		d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
    ewfrecover: SUCCESS

  Trying to recover a non-corrupted image

    ewfrecover notcorrupt.E01
    ewfrecover 20120805
    EWF file(s) are not corrupted.

DIAGNOSTICS
Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation.

BUGS
Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libewf/

AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2006-2023, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
ewfacquire(1), ewfacquirestream(1), ewfexport(1), ewfinfo(1), ewfmount(1), ewfverify(1)