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.
photorec across network?
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Re: photorec across network?
Windows doesn't but TestDisk.can I use the windows executable and recover from the ext4 NAS drives?
TestDisk is Linux based on cygwin dll.
To recover from ext4 is possible, because windows partitions (FAT; NTFS) are used as a destination or target to copy files to.
But the reverse not.
Windows executable can't copy files to an ext4-partition.
Re: photorec across network?
Thats awesome. Makes this simple to do. Thanks very much!
Re: photorec across network?
Actually, no mapped drives are available in the drive list - so I guess it can only work from the machine that has the drives.
Re: photorec across network?
You can have a look here;
http://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/mapp ... g-t30.html
http://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/mapp ... g-t30.html