NAME

       recovermov - recover movies from a filesystem image

SYNOPSIS

       recovermov [options] device

DESCRIPTION

       Recovermov  tries  to  identify  mov  movies from a filesystem image.  To achieve this goal, it scans the
       filesystem image and looks for a mov structure at blocks starting at 512 bytes boundaries.

       recovermov stores the recovered movies into the current directory.  If you want it to  store  them  else‐
       where,  just go to the directory you want recovermov to save the movies into (using the cd command at the
       shell prompt) and start recovermov from there, or use the -o option.

       Note that device is not necessarily a physical device.  It may also be a file containing a  copy  of  the
       faulty  device  in order to reduce the actual processing time and the stress imposed to an already defec‐
       tive hardware.  dd(1) or ddrescue(1) may be used to create such a working copy.

OPTIONS

       -h     Display an help message.

       -b blocksize
              Set the size of blocks in bytes.  On most file systems, setting it to 512 (the default) will  work
              fine  as  any  large  file  will  be stored on 512 bytes boundaries.  Setting it to 1 maximize the
              chances of finding very small files if the filesystems aggregates them (UFS for  example)  at  the
              expense of a much longer running time.

       -i integerindex
              Set the initial index value for image numbering (default: 0).

       -n basename
              Basename to use to create the salvaged files.  Default is video_.

       -o directory
              Change  the working directory before restoring files.  Use this option to restore files into a di‐
              rectory with enough space instead of the current directory.  This option can be repeated.

       -V     Display program version and exit.

       All the sizes may be suffixed by a k, m, g, or t letter to indicate KiB, MiB, GiB, or TiB.  For  example,
       6m correspond to 6 MiB (6291456 bytes).

EXAMPLES

       Recover as many movies as possible from the memory card located in /dev/sdc:

              recovermov /dev/sdc

       Recover  as many movies as possible from a crashed ReiserFS file system (which does not necessarily store
       files at block boundaries) in /dev/hdb1:

              recovermov -b 1 /dev/hdb1

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2010-2016 Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>  and  Jan  Funke  <jan.funke@inf.tu-dresden.de>.
       This  is  free  software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MER‐
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       recoverjpeg(1)

AUTHORS

       Jan Funke <jan.funke@inf.tu-dresden.de> and Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>.

Recovermov User Manuals                         November 12, 2016                                  RECOVERMOV(1)