photorec across network?
Posted: 30 Mar 2012, 14:28
I have a armv5 QNAP NAS which I can't find a version of testdisk/photorec for so I can't do the recovery from that system. I'm wondering if it's possible to run photorec from another PC and recover files from the NAS that way? I've been searching and I read a lot about having a shared drive as the destination for recovered files but not found any mention of running photorec on a remote system.
Second question that might be dumb: If I can run photorec from a remote machine, can I use the windows executable and recover from the ext4 NAS drives? I'd assume not since windows doesn't do ext4.
I don't have a linux box built yet but I was planning on using an older PC to install FREENAS (then at least I have an intel based system and have a lot easier time of things) so I can install debian or something to do the recovery then do FREENAS later.
Second question that might be dumb: If I can run photorec from a remote machine, can I use the windows executable and recover from the ext4 NAS drives? I'd assume not since windows doesn't do ext4.
I don't have a linux box built yet but I was planning on using an older PC to install FREENAS (then at least I have an intel based system and have a lot easier time of things) so I can install debian or something to do the recovery then do FREENAS later.