How to Install and Uninstall safecopy Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "safecopy" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install safecopy on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall safecopy on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: safecopy
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 115
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Forensics
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.7-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/universe/s/safecopy/safecopy_1.7-1_amd64.deb
Size: 45630
MD5sum: d3717f58765fac1fa63d02dac2642ddb
SHA1: cac46336f11456d65cbd51a066519cb6b20ffdcc
SHA256: d47f1d089175ce43f69f7222a1f121a2b1a0d98a3cce08d3431d55f9b7305b68
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
Homepage: http://safecopy.sf.net
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu