1ewfrecover                           LOCAL                          ewfrecover
2

NAME

4     ewfrecover — exports media data stored in EWF files
5

SYNOPSIS

7     ewfrecover [-A codepage] [-l log_filename] [-p process_buffer_size]
8                [-t target] [-hquvVx] ewf_files
9

DESCRIPTION

11     ewfrecover is a utility to recover corrupt EWF files.
12
13     ewfrecover is part of the libewf package.  libewf is a library to access
14     the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF).
15
16     ewf_files the first or the entire set of EWF segment files
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18     The options are as follows:
19
20     -A codepage
21             the codepage of header section, options: ascii (default), win‐
22             dows-874, windows-932, windows-936, windows-949, windows-950,
23             windows-1250, windows-1251, windows-1252, windows-1253, win‐
24             dows-1254, windows-1255, windows-1256, windows-1257 or win‐
25             dows-1258
26
27     -h      shows this help
28
29     -l log_filename
30             logs recover errors and the digest (hash) to the log filename
31
32     -p process_buffer_size
33             the process buffer size (default is the chunk size)
34
35     -t target
36             the target file to recover to (default is recover)
37
38     -v      verbose output to stderr
39
40     -V      print version
41
42     -x      use the chunk data instead of the buffered read and write func‐
43             tions.
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ENVIRONMENT

46     None
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FILES

49     None
50

EXAMPLES

52     ewfrecover will ask the information it needs.
53
54   Recovering a corrupted image
55     ewfrecover corrupt.E01
56     ewfrecover 20120805
57
58     Export started at: Mon Aug  6 07:09:34 2012
59
60     This could take a while.
61
62           ...
63
64     Export completed at: Mon Aug  6 07:09:34 2012
65
66     MD5 hash calculated over data:          d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
67     ewfrecover: SUCCESS
68
69   Trying to recover a non-corrupted image
70     ewfrecover notcorrupt.E01
71     ewfrecover 20120805
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73     EWF file(s) are not corrupted.
74

DIAGNOSTICS

76     Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose out‐
77     put -v is enabled. Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled
78     at compilation.
79

BUGS

81     Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the
82     project website: http://code.google.com/p/libewf/
83

AUTHOR

85     These man pages were written by Joachim Metz.
86

88     Copyright 2006-2014, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>.
89
90     This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
91     warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR‐
92     POSE.
93

SEE ALSO

95     ewfacquire(1), ewfacquirestream(1), ewfexport(1), ewfinfo(1),
96     ewfmount(1), ewfverify(1)
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98libewf                         January 19, 2014                         libewf
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