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as PhotoRec can't parse directly from a "broken" Acronis Backup TIB archive file I was able to "convert" my TIB file into a ZLIB stream file.
what's my best option with this ZLIB stream file in the first place to ensure PhotoRec can get the most out of it
I highly want to appreciate the effort of work done in PhotoRec and it's file type recognition - this said I could carve out the ZLIB stream with foremost but I'm missing the ability to get "correct" and working files when working only with the option to identify a file by its header
Thank you
Last edited by GreySlater on 31 May 2020, 21:52, edited 1 time in total.
PhotoRec doesn't work on stream. You have to decompress the stream (zlib-flate -uncompress), create a file with the output and run photorec on this file.
I decompressed everything into one file but was not sure which file extension I should use. I went with RAW
For comparison I made this with a "good" TIB archive were I backed up multiple known files (GIF, JPG, PNG, SNT, SQLITE, PDF) but qphotorec_win.exe has a hard time finding only one PDF and one GIF
