Source: magicrescue Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Varun Hiremath Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), cdbs, libgdbm-dev, quilt Standards-Version: 3.8.3 Homepage: http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/ Vcs-Svn: https://bollin.googlecode.com/svn/magicrescue/trunk/ Vcs-Browser: http://bollin.googlecode.com/svn/magicrescue/trunk/ Package: magicrescue Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Recommends: libjpeg-progs Description: recovers files by looking for magic bytes Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover and calls an external program to extract them. It looks at "magic bytes" in file contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for recovering a corrupted drive or partition. As long as the file data is there, it will find it.