Stellar Phoenix Linux Recovery

It happens to everybody sooner or later, a single second after you press Enter you understand your mistake, but it is too late; you just removed a precious file or folder from your Linux computer for which no back up exists. Or may be you’ve back up, but it is one month old. And in shock you see the precedent month flash before your eyes as you understand in pain what you will have to do all over again.

Luckily, you bear in mind that files and folders are never in fact deleted, at most overwritten by new data. Therefore, you remount the drive read only as soon as possible. There are several methods to manually or automatically recovering the lost data. Almost all of the operating systems contain some or other undelete tools or methods.
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Recovering systems is one of the most time-consuming processes for a computer user or IT department. Imaging tools or software programs, open source and commercial, makes compressed images of the hard drive data of your computer system and stores it on a central server. Later these images can be used to restore your system or roll out new ones.
System Imager is the useful and popular open source imaging software used in Linux and other Unix based computers.
System Imager has several benefits over traditional drive imaging methods and tools. It uses rsync to store the image remotely, and can do the backup or full install in just a few minutes.
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Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most well-known examples of open source development and free software. In Linux operating system, generally all fundamental source code can be modified, redistributed and used freely by anyone.

The name “Linux” derives from the Linux Kernel, started by Linus Torvalds in 1991. The libraries and utilities of a Linux system come from the GNU (a free computer operating system) announced by Richard Stallman in 1983. The GNU part is the basis for the optional name GNU/Linux.

Predominantly acknowledged for its use on Server computers, Linux is supported by several corporations like HP, IBM, Dell, Novell, Red Hat, Oracle Corporation, and Sun Microsystems. Linux is used as an operating system for a number of computer hardware, such as desktop computers, servers, laptops, super computers and so on.

As well as Linux operating system was designed for general purpose use on servers and desktops, distributions may be specialized for various purposes such as computer architecture support, stability, embedded systems, localization and security to a specific constituency or language, support for real time applications, and assurance to a known desktop environment.

Linux is the most widely ported computer operating system. Today, more than three hundred distributions (flavors) of the Linux are available in the market. These flavors are known for their reliability, stability, data security and data safety. The data stored on Linux computers are safer than other computer operating system.

Although, Linux computers are known for their reliability and stability, but there is nothing that can be said 100% safe and secure. Like other operating systems, Linux can also fail and problems can occur with Linux systems also and the data stored on Linux hard drive may get lost. Data loss is the most drastic situation for a computer user where he/she loses the business in the form of data.

But there is no need to panic. With the advanced technologies, the recovery of lost data is possible with the help of data recovery software. Data recovery software are specially designed tools that can be used in all situations of data loss. The Linux recovery software provide an easy and simple user interface so that you can perform recovery by yourself without having any sound technical knowledge.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is the most powerful and tremendous software that performs the Linux recovery job very easily and effectively. This software uses advanced and powerful scanning algorithms to search and locate your lost data and recover them. This software provides data recovery with a great ease and efficiency.
Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software can recover all of your lost data from Linux hard drive including documents, pictures, songs, movies and other application files.

The free demo version of Linux data recovery software is available on the company’s website that you can use to check out the amount of recoverable data and can also check the user interface of the software. Demo version is also capable to show the preview of recoverable files.

Sometimes when you boot your Linux based computer, you may find that your system stucks in the boot window or it aborts the boot process. In these cases, you need to restart and the system but the same situation occurs again and again.

This problem generally occurs if fstab directory contains wrong or corrupted or missing information form system related mount points. In these situations the boot process aborts when the operating system tries to write log information to the relevant directory.

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Disk Druid is the component of various Linux flavours that is used for editing, creating and deleting the Linux partitions. It is a program that partitions the hard drive for you. This program provides Add, Edit, Delete and Reset options for making changes to your existing Linux partitions.

Linux refers to disk partitions using a combination of numbers and letters. You can make swap partitions also, using Disk Druid component. Swap partitions are used to support for Virtual Memory. You should always make virtual partitions to increase your system performance. Read the rest of this entry »

The hardware configuration of Linux computers is similar to other operating system based computers like UNIX and Windows except Mac. The hardware problems are also the same. When it comes to the physical system crash, the reasons are also much similar. The disk failure is caused by the reasons that are responsible for other computers.

The major and most catastrophic hardware failure in Linux computer is total hard drive failure. It can occur when a computer is kicked or dropped, though it can also happen because of old age of the hard drive. Generally, the read write head crashes onto the disk platters, by this means of trashing the head, and keeping everything/anything on that platter from being readable. If the hard drive has only one platter that means everything.
This failure can occur due to electric failure. In these situations, the data stored on the computer hard drive can’t be read and it can lead to the nightmare of data loss. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes, when you try to access a file or folder in your Linux based computer, you may get the following error message:

“Cannot read table of mounted file systems”

After this error message, the particular file or folder can’t be accessed from your computer.
Cause

This error message occurs due to corruption or deletion of etc/mtab or root directory files. These files can get corrupted or deleted when your file system mounts. Read the rest of this entry »

Ext3 or Third Extended File System is a Journaled file system used in Linux operating system. This is the most popular Linux file system. It was the first journaled Linux file system. Ext3 is the default file system for some of the popular Linux flavours.

The Ext3 file system has several data structures for storing the file system information. These file system data structures are also known as metadata structures. The important metadata structures contained in the Ext3 file system are super block, boot block, Inode table and descriptor table. Read the rest of this entry »

In Linux Operating System, Volume is the term that refers to the logical partition of hard drive. hard drive volumes are the hard drive partitions that has different file systems and different accessing privileges. It is a logical interface used by operating system to access the data stored on computer hard drive. In Linux operating system volume is handled by Logical Volume Manager. The hard drive is divided into several volumes due to following purposes:

1.    Separation of user files and operating system files
2.    keeping frequently used data and programs close to each other
3.    using more than one operating system
4.    increasing overall system performance

due to following purposes, a Linux hard drive is divided in different volumes. It decreases the risk of data loss in case of operating system failure. The structure of Linux Volume depends on the File system used by it. There are three popular Linux File Systems- Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS.

Though, dividing the hard drive in logical volumes in good idea to save your data but sometimes you may find that your logical Linux volumes become inaccessible or invisible due to deletion or corruption in it. The logical volume may get deleted due to following reasons:

•    Accidental deletion of partition
•    Power Surges
•    Hard Disk failure,  crashes
•    Virus Attacks
•    When your OS cannot access hard drive

If any of these situations happens, volume deletion can take place and your vital and important data stored on them can lost or become inaccessible. It may create several hardships for the people who are dependant on these lost data.
But there is no need to worry; you can recover your lost logical volumes. when the logical volume is deleted, in general, only the partition table of the volume is deleted from the table and the data become inaccessible. But the data still remains on the disk.

You can recover the lost logical volume and data with the help of data recovery software. Data recovery software are Do It Yourself solution of recovering your lost data from missing or lost logical volumes. For Linux operating system, these software are known as Linux Data Recovery. Before purchasing any Linux recovery software, you should make sure that whether the software will support your Volume file system or not.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is a well known and most effective data recovery software for Linux operating system. This Linux recovery software can recover data in all possible circumstances of data loss including Logical volume deletion, accidental deletion, operating system corruption and virus attack. This Linux data recovery software uses advanced searching algorithms to search and locate the lost data and recover them at their original location in original format. Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery software can recover data from all Linux file systems including Ext2, Ext3, and ReiserFS.

ReiserFS is the latest version of Linux File Systems. It is a general purpose, journaled file system designed for Linux operating system. It was the first journaled file system that is included in the standard kernel. ReiserFS is the default file system in several Linux distributions such as Xandros, Elive, Yoper, GoboLinux, Linspire and Kurumin Linux.

The design purposes of ReiserFS file system were to improve the system performance over Ext2 and Ext3 file system, provide a space efficient file system, and to get better handling of large files and directories compared to existing file system. It uses balanced tree to store the files and folders and it also uses journaling. Read the rest of this entry »