Free data recovery freeware software for linux

Kaboot Linux Operating system aims to provide an operating system which you can take anywhere and has all your favourite programs on.
Kaboot operating system is avaliable as a Live CD or Live USB you can take with you anywhere.
A number of different versions are avaliable, two optimised for size or speed, one for functionality, and one science based.
All containing a host of useful programs able to boot virtually any computer (meeting the minimum requirements) from CD and
USB.Kaboot is still in active development and if you find a bug or fix, you can let me know in the forums.
Enhancements:
- A network bug was fixed.
- A few debugging utilities were added.
- Hotplugging was implemented.

Data::Report provides a framework for flexible reporting.

Data::Report is a flexible, plugin-driven reporting framework. It makes it easy to define reports that can be produced in text, HTML and CSV. Textual ornaments like extra empty lines, dashed lines, and cell lines can be added in a way similar to HTML style sheets.

The Data::Report framework consists of three parts:
The plugins

Plugins implement a specific type of report. Standard plugins provided are Data::Report::Plugin::Text for textual reports, Data::Report::Plugin::Html for HTML reports, and Data::Report::Plugin::Csv for CSV (comma-separated) files.
Users can, and are encouraged, to develop their own plugins to handle different styles and types of reports.

The base class
The base class Data::Report::Base implements the functionality common to all reporters, plus a number of utility functions the plugins can use.

The factory
The actual Data::Report module is a factory that creates a reporter for a given report type by selecting the appropriate plugin and returning an instance thereof.

Make CD-ROM Recovery makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), including backups of the linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape.

After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run) with the command /etc/recovery/start-restore.sh

Disk cloning (clone-dsk.sh script) allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size as it calculates the partition layout itself). A thrid script, restore-fs.sh, will restore only one filesystem to a partition of your choice, and the user can choose with which filesystem the partition has to be formatted.

Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels are supported, and if size of the kernel is not too big a boot floppy can be made, otherwise a 2.88 Mb boot floppy will be emulated on CD-ROM.

MkCDrec supports ext2 , ext3, minix, xfs , jfs, reiserfs file systems, LVM and software RAID (multiple devices). Each file system is backed up as a compressed tar archive (including the tar log). The compress program used is the users choice (compress, gzip, bzip2, lzop,...)

But there is more: msdos, fat, vfat and ntfs mounted partitions are recognized and are saved as compressed dumps (on CD, tape, etc.)
The user has the possibility to encrypt all backups with openssl if desired (see the Config.sh configuration file for more information).

To restore your system completely just boot from the first CD-ROM made by mkCDrec and type "/etc/recovery/start-restore.sh " to restore everything from CD. Automatic Disaster Recovery and One Button Disaster Recovery are supported by mkCDrec too.
With the clone-dsk.sh script one can restore selective a disk or partitions to another free disk.

mkCDrec supports IDE (inclusive ATA), SCSI disks, hardware RAID based disks (e.g. Compaq SMART2 Disk Array), LVM and software RAID. With an El-Torito CD-ROM you can boot from an IDE or SCSI based CD-ROM drive on IA32/64, powermac and x86_64 GNU/Linux based computer systems only.

Data::Generate allows you to create various types of synthetic data by parsing "regex-like" data creation rules.

This module generates data by parsing given text statements (data creation rules). These statements are flexible and powerful regex-like way to control the production of synthetic data. Think about a program that instead of selecting data which matches a regex filter expression, produces it. For example, from the rule [a-c], the generator would produce the array a,b,c. The module works as following:

Specify data creation rules.
my $generator= Data::Generate::parse(VC(24) [0-9][2-3]);
At this step first you define one kind of output datatype (for ex. VC(24)= "output is a string with max length 24") and then with the rest of the expression define what it should look like. If parsing is successful a Data Generator object is instantiated.

Get data
my $Data= $generator->get_unique_data(10);
To really get the data, users must call the get_unique_data method by indicating the desired number of output values. The generator returns the values contained in an array reference. Please remark that output format is fixed according to the data type.

The gzip Recovery Toolkit attempts to automate the recovery of data from corrupted gzip files (including tarballs) through a program called gzrecover. gzip Recovery Toolkit package is still very experimental at this point.
99% of "corrupted" gzip archives are caused by transferring the file via FTP in ASCII mode instead of binary mode. Please re-transfer the file in the correct mode first before attempting to recover from a file you believe is corrupted.
This program is provided AS IS with absolutely NO WARRANTY. It is not guaranteed to recover anything from your file, nor is what it does recover guaranteed to be good data. The bigger your file, the more likely that something will be extracted from it. Also keep in mind that this program gets faked out and is likely to "recover" some bad data. Everything should be manually verified.
Usage:
Run gzrecover on a corrupted .gz file. Anything that can be read from the file will be written to a file with the same name, but with a .recovered appended (any .gz is stripped). You can override this with the -o option.
To get a verbose readout of exactly where gzrecover is finding bad bytes, use the -v option to enable verbose mode. This will probably overflow your screen with text so best to redirect output to a file.
Once gzrecover has finished, you will need to manually verify any data recovered as it is quite likely that our output file is corrupt and has some garbage data in it. If your archive is a tarball, read on.
For tarballs, the tar program will choke because GNU tar cannot handle errors in the file format. Fortunately, GNU cpio (tested at version 2.5 or higher) handles corrupted files out of the box.
Heres an example:
$ ls *.gz
my-corrupted-backup.tar.gz
$ gzrecover my-corrupted-backup.tar.gz
$ ls *.recovered
my-corrupted-backup.tar.recovered
$ cpio -F my-corrupted-backup.tar.recovered -i -v
If you have a previous release, please note that the patches to GNU tar have been discontinued. They were only marginally successful at best and GNU cpio does what is needed out of the box and does it far better.
Enhancements:
- Documentation updates, including a man page, plus code cleanup to better enable inclusion in GNU/Linux packages and eliminate compilation warnings.

Cmos password recovery tools decrypts password stored in cmos used to access BIOS SETUP.
Works with the following BIOSes:
- ACER/IBM BIOS
- AMI BIOS
- AMI WinBIOS 2.5
- Award 4.5x/4.6x/6.0
- Compaq (1992)
- Compaq (New version)
- IBM (PS/2, Activa, Thinkpad)
- Packard Bell
- Phoenix 1.00.09.AC0 (1994), a486 1.03, 1.04, 1.10 A03, 4.05 rev 1.02.943, 4.06 rev 1.13.1107
- Phoenix 4 release 6 (User)
- Gateway Solo - Phoenix 4.0 release 6
- Toshiba
- Zenith AMI
With CmosPwd, you can also backup, restore and erase/kill cmos.
AWARD 4.50 have a backdoor, a generic password : AWARD_SW SOYO motherboard have "SY_MB" as master password for Award 4.51. CmosPwd give equivalent passwords for Award BIOS, not original one.
CmosPwd works and compiles under:
- Dos-Win9x,
- Windows NT/W2K/XP/2003,
- Linux,
- FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Enhancements:
- This version adds support for the VAIO EEPROM and Samsung P25 CMOS.

Sunrise Data Dictionary is a library for hashtable storage of arbitrary data objects with built-in reference counting and guaranteed order iteration for the C programming language.
Sunrise Data Dictionary library can participate in external reference counting systems or use its own built-in reference counting. It comes with a variety of hash functions and allows the use of runtime supplied hash functions via callback mechanism. The source code is well documented.
The Sunrise Data Dictionary was specifically designed for use within the Afelio and Callweaver telephony servers, the implementation focuses on performance and scalability.
Enhancements:
- This is the initial release of the full API (all header files) and a developer snapshot of the implementation.

DOG Data Organizer provides a bookmark organizer for various bookmark types.

DOG is a personal knowledge manager based on topic maps. It currently specializes in managing bookmarks.

It imports and exports Netscape, Mozilla, and KDE2 (XBEL) bookmark files, and it imports KDE1 bookmarks and Windows IE Favorites.