I've been working on a utility script for drive maintenance, and would like to include a data recovery tool. I've been able to locate in ports sysutils/ddrescue, sysutils/dd_rescue, and sysutils/testdisk.
The simple question is if there are additional tools, and what your general opinion is on the different tools from your experience.
The question I'm really after - what are some good ways that I could test the various data recovery tools available to determine which ones will work best for me? I've never intentionally made data unreadable with the intention of recovering it, so I'm not sure what are the best artificial circumstances to create. I don't get enough real data-loss events to test those scenarios.
The simple question is if there are additional tools, and what your general opinion is on the different tools from your experience.
The question I'm really after - what are some good ways that I could test the various data recovery tools available to determine which ones will work best for me? I've never intentionally made data unreadable with the intention of recovering it, so I'm not sure what are the best artificial circumstances to create. I don't get enough real data-loss events to test those scenarios.