How to Install and Uninstall safecopy Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "safecopy" package

This is a short guide on how to install safecopy on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                safecopy
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "safecopy" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall safecopy on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                safecopy
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the safecopy package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: safecopy
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.7-6
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 96
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/universe/s/safecopy/safecopy_1.7-6_amd64.deb
Size: 46284
MD5sum: 07e002feb5a59e840e5d34ba56fc01e9
SHA1: a82149b6c472dc3c8138b0b6ff4edce454114a18
SHA256: a43056431b45c54927c295db296a8d8efc258d11e0f985f1ba7e7a1d05022447
SHA512: 73e5677e57d3ae170cc20cd6cdffea58632ec7cde0c3c9a8b4c3b6ac67be091d8f7e8561f601256649aa749a6eb70db6b88b3cf26a0af8659ceca70722c3144d
Homepage: http://safecopy.sf.net
Description-en: data recovery tool for problematic or damaged media
Safecopy tries to get as much data from SOURCE as possible, even resorting
to device specific low level operations if applicable. This is achieved by
identifying problematic or damaged areas, skipping over them and continuing
reading afterwards. The corresponding area in the destination file is either
skipped (on initial creation that means padded with zeros) or deliberately
filled with a recognizable pattern to later find affected files on a corrupted
device. The work is similar to ddrescue, generating an image of the original
media. This media can be floppy disks, harddisk partitions, CDs, DVDs, tape
devices, where other tools like dd would fail due to I/O errors.
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Safecopy uses an incremental algorithm to identify the exact beginning and
end of bad areas, allowing the user to trade minimum accesses to bad areas
for thorough data resurrection.
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Multiple passes over the same file are possible, to first retrieve as much
data from a device as possible with minimum harm, and then trying to retrieve
some of the remaining data with increasingly aggressive read attempts.
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Safecopy includes a low level I/O layer to read CDROM disks in raw mode,
and issue device resets and other helpful low level operations on a number
of other device classes.
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Safecopy is useful in forensics investigations and disaster recovery.
Description-md5: 0357e342b5dc17b9b323beead61e5104