Free diagnostics and recovery toolset software for linux

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.

Relax and Recover (abbreviated rear) is a highly modular disaster recovery framework for GNU/Linux based systems.
The disaster recovery information (and maybe the backups) can be stored via the network, local on hard disks or USB devices, DVD/CD-R, tape, etc. The result is also a bootable image that is capable of booting via PXE, DVD/CD and tape (OBDR).
Main features:
- Focus on Disaster Recovery
- Modular concept
- For Linux and other Unix-like operations systems
- No external dependancies - use only standard software supplied with the distribution
- encryption (optional) - openssl ?
- Linux: kernel > 2.6 supported (no kernel 2.2/2.4 support !)
- User friendly - minimal output, use log file for error messages and details
The aim is to make rear as least demanding as possible, it will require only the applications neccessary to fulfill the job rear is configured for. All other applications will be copied to the rescue system if they are present.
Enhancements:
- Added SELinux suppport for NETFS Did restore tests with NETFS - see video 2006-08-31 GSS
- Added NETFS support BACKUP=NETFS 2006-08-30 GSS
- finally fixed bug in mkrescue-functions.sh about c0d0p 0 (DEVwP=1)
- Added RHEL ES/AS support 2006-07-21 GD
- start the NFS/CIFS tar backup-restore cyclus
- added support for Software RAID

A tool to take that corrupted Netscape Address Book and get your information out of it. This is a tool to take that corrupted Netscape Address Book and get your information out of it. After the third time my book got corrupted, I gave up trying to fix it by hand and wrote this program. This program attempts to get as much information out of the address book as is possible. But as with all programs of this type, it will always need to change to keep track of the different ways in which the address book can be corrupted. It can output .csv (Comma Separated Values) or .ldi (LDAP Date Interchange Format) files.Dont output .csv files, you will lose all mailing list information.
Enhancements:
- Major bugfixes with handling indexes
- Major bugfixes with handling edits
- Added LDIF support
- Added support for mailling lists

Poisson Media Recovery project can be used to retrieve slightly damaged files from CD-ROM media.

It sequentially mounts and umounts the device, and on each mount it tries to read as many new 512 byte sectors as possible.

I was able to use this tool to save some files from old CDs.

Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server. With ZRM for MySQL you can:
- Schedule full and incremental logical or raw backups of your MySQL database
- Perform backup that is the best match for your storage engine and your MySQL configuration
- Get e-mail notification about status of your backups
- Monitor and browse your backups
- Recover database easily to any point in time or to any particular transaction

Dariks Boot and Nuke is short DBAN is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.
DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
Main features:
- Free.
- Fast. Rapid deployment in emergency situations.
- Easy. Start the computer with DBAN and press the ENTER key.
- Safe. Irrecoverable data destruction. Prevents most forensic data recovery techniques.
Enhancements:
- SysLinux 2.13
- Linux 2.4.33
- LZMA 4.32
- uClibc 0.9.20
- Busybox 0.60.5
- Ncurses 5.3
- WinImage 8.0.8000
- dban-1.0.7 was compiled with Debian gcc-3.3 1:3.3.5-13
- This release is compressed with LZMA, which provides much more free space on the floppy disk. LSI MPT and I2O drivers were added.
- Thanks go to Igor Sobrado for reporting the "5220.22-M" typo.
- Thanks go to Dorina Lanza for reporting a block adjustment error.

nEW uNIFIED mEMORY aCCESS (or numa for short) is a file recovery tool for the ext3/ext2 file system. It recovers deleted GIF files of less than 48kb.
Enhancements:
- This release also recovers MP3, PDF, PNG, HTML, and Java files.

The mkCDrec utilities are optional for mkCDrec itself, but are an added value for rescue and recovery purposes.

The utilities are staticly compiled and include parted, memtest, partimage, gpart, and recover. Memtest86 is also available for memory testing.

To improve the added value of your recovery/rescue CD-ROM. You will notice that links from mkCDrec CD-ROM are foreseen to the /cdrom/utilities part of the CD-ROM and that man pages of these tools are already available within mkCDrec main toolset.

Without installing the utilities you cannot use them (obvious), but it will not break any other functionality of the mkCDrec tools. Therefore, a full restore remains possible (and disk cloning too), but you will not be able to resize a partition afterwards to name something.

Most of these utilities were compiled as static binaries, therefore, you can use those tools seperately too. If you know any tool which could useful to be included, please let me know... Since mkCDrec_utils_v0.5.7 you will notice that mkCDrec will use isolinux to boot from the CD-ROM instead of using syslinux floppy boot emulation.

But, this will only work if you use mkCDrec_v0.5.7 (or higher) as isolinux was first introduced in v0.5.7.

Parted

The famous Partition Editor of GNU software. The User Manual of parted is already part of mkCDrec.

Memtest

An excellent memory testing tool.

Partition Image

A tool to make/restore partition of msdos/vfat/ext2/reiserfs file systems. The primary purpose to include this tool is to allow a restore of old partition images made by this tool.

Gpart

Guess partition does what it implies. It can even recover destroyed partition tables, and therefore, maybe preventing a full restore. Useful in case if you do not make a mkcdrec on a regular basis.

Recover

An excellent tool to edit an EXT2 file system to recover lost files.

e2salvage

e2salvage is a utility which tries to recover a data from damaged ext2 partition. It may be used when e2fsck does not recover the broken ext2 filesystem. Before trying this tool read the man page (man e2salvage).

ext2resize

ext2resize, ext2prepare and ext2online are useful tools. ext2resize can increase (or decrease) the size of an unmounted ext2 filesystem. Be aware for ext2online one need a kernel patch (not likely installed). By the way, ext2resize does work too on an Ext3 filesystem! Be aware, one needs to apply S. Tweedies kernel patch (ext3) and an updated ext2 filesystem e2fprogs-1.20 or higher (which are ext3 aware). Last 2 requirements are of course only needed in case if you want to work with ext3 filesystems.

memtest86

Memtest86 is thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86.

chntpw

The offline NT password editor (chntpw) is a little program wich enables you to view and change passwords in a Windows NT SAM user database. For example,

Installation

# cd mkcdrec; tar zxvf mkCDrec_v0.7.9_utils.tar.gz
# ls -l utilities