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Data Recovery Options

This documentation is informational not policy.

The purpose of this

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document is to provide FSP's with the tools necessary to provide the best effort in data recovery should an event occur.
Data recovery documentation will be updated as tools are identified and tested.

Platform: Ubuntu Linux 12.04
Software Tools: TestDisk  link to direct you to a step by step guide for data recovery .
Hardware Tools: USB hard drive adapter or hard drive docking station

This document has 2 parts Preparation & Actionable
PREPARATION has 3 steps
**Both tools are run from the terminal (command prompt) in Linux**
Prep Step 1













Prep Step 2
**Important step before running ANY data recovery procedure is to assess hard drive functionality**
Before plugging hard drive in, open separate terminal windows and type
tail –f /var/log/syslog press enter.
The below window list information about existing drives attached to system

Prep Step 3
After plugging in the problematic hard drive- the tail –f command used in previous step allows you to see the status of the drive real time as the system tries to identify the hard drive.
**Note**

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