Comments on: Data Recovery with Photorec

By: Chipong Wong

Chipong Wong — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 02:15:50 +0000

Hi. I get stuck at [Run PhotoRec (photorec_static) in the shell by issuing a ./photorec_static command] with an error of cannot execute binary file. Can you give a hint?

By: Mr J R Haynes

Mr J R Haynes — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 18:23:42 +0000

So my deleted 600GB would take 10 years in theory ?

By: Joe Haynes

Joe Haynes — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:00:07 +0000

20 Days for 3GB , wow thats a long time

I had unintentionally sent around 600GB to the Qnap Recycle bin and for some weird reason the NAS screwed my Data , so to recover this data , based on what your saying (in theory) I would have to let in run for 4000 Days or 10 Years to recover it all

Shall I post back in 10 years to tell you how I get on ?

By: Murat TURAN

Murat TURAN — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:08:38 +0000

Sürekli olarak bu hatayı alıyorum. Linx sistemlere ve Putty kullanımına yabancı değilim..

-sh: /share/Public/photorec_static: cannot execute binary file
[/share/Public] #

By: David Hall

David Hall — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 06:18:58 +0000

For anyone who needs to recover files on an ARM based Qnap (TS212 for example), download the “Marvell 88F628x Linux 2.6.32″ version from the Testdisk page.

After you have copied the folder to the QNAP and carried out the chmod function you will probably encounter an error like “Terminfo file is missing” when trying to run photorec.

If you run these two commands and try running photorec after, it should work…

export TERM=linux
export TERMINFO_DIRS=./

./photorec

Hope this helps!

By: Julien Geneyne

Julien Geneyne — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:54:46 +0000

Hello,

does photorec work on a QNAP based on ARM ?

Thanks for your reply.
Julien

By: burado51

burado51 — Thu, 19 May 2016 08:37:42 +0000

No, but you better use a fresh external HDD

By: Twas

Twas — Sun, 01 May 2016 03:39:08 +0000

So I went through everything you mentioned here and read all the comments. Nothing worked. I even tried installing all of this into the sbin folder. I tried the 64 bit, and the NAS one for Synology and Qnap. Still nothing. The file would not execute. Then I tried the 32 bit version because I have the same exact Qnap TS-695 Pro. Picked it up on Ebay.
The 32 bit version of this app worked perfect, just perfect.
There is more to this story. Recovering 3 gig takes 20 days on a slow system and 10 days on a kick ass I7. The issue is who wants to leave their computer running for 20 days straight? Well guess what? The Qnap mentioned above has a VGA port and it displays console/terminal ssh. So all you have to do is plug in a USB keyboard, connect the VGA port to a monitor, and do all this from the Qnap device. That way you don’t sacrifice 20 days of your PC/server to recover the files. Let the NAS device do it for you. When you disconnect the VGA monitor and keyboard the NAS continues extracting. When you reconnect and touch any button but the Enter key, it refreshes and your session is still running. Nothing shy of awesome in my book. I spent four days trying to figure out how not to tie up my PC’s to accomplish this.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:26:24 +0000

Hi, will this process overwrite the contents of my external drive?

By: ylsf

ylsf — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 01:59:02 +0000

Hi, do you have a way to submit questions? I had typed up a comment/question earlier here but I think it got lost or didn’t submit correctly. I typed up my question on the QNAP forums but I haven’t gotten any response.

http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=119724

I am trying to figure out what has happened to my drive and the best way to recover it. I am running Test Disk partition recovery on it now to see what it finds. It does show some partitions on it but only the “qnap” files show in the first partition so that is why I am running a deep analysis but it will probably take until the end of the weekend to finish..