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This post relates to this other question of mine: Recovering Data

I'm finding a partition on TestDisk, but it's about 300 GB and I don't have an external hard drive on hand.

  • Is it possible to put pieces of the recovered data on a 16 GB flash drive, then bring it over to my other laptop? (The laptop has a terabyte hard drive so storage is not an issue)

    Or is there anything else I can do, such as uploading the recovery to the cloud?

Thanks!

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  • @user.dz Does the NFS share have to be on Ubuntu or Windows? I have both installed on the second PC. – RPT Nov 25 '16 at 16:42
  • @user.dz How do I setup an nfs share and then connect to it? – RPT Nov 25 '16 at 18:24
  • Follow this one for Ubuntu http://tecadmin.net/how-to-configure-nfs-mount-on-ubuntu/ – user.dz Nov 25 '16 at 18:45
  • What about hosting it on windows and having Ubuntu client? – RPT Nov 25 '16 at 18:53
  • I have tried the freenfs.exe in win7 but it got an error on ubuntu client about permissions. I'm not super good in windows neither is on-topic here, you better ask in https://superuser.com/ – user.dz Nov 26 '16 at 11:51
  • @user.dz that looks like a good answer. You might consider expanding the instructions a bit and writing a full answer instead of comments. :) – Andrea Lazzarotto Nov 27 '16 at 00:58
  • @AndreaLazzarotto, thank you for remind, I was in doubt about this. – user.dz Nov 27 '16 at 10:57

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There are many options but It too broad to pass or expend all of them. Our refrence here is this simple recover method explained in:

Recovering broken or deleted NTFS partitions

It is always recommended to make dd or ddrescue image of the partition, then run testdisk/photorec through the image. Which means 02x 300GB free space is needed.

  • Both dd/ddrescue support start position and size. So you can read chunks one by one, copy to flash disk then merge them on PC2.

    man dd

       count_bytes
          treat 'count=N' as a byte count (iflag only)

   skip_bytes
          treat 'skip=N' as a byte count (iflag only)

   seek_bytes
          treat 'seek=N' as a byte count (oflag only)

    The disadvantage is that you have 20 rounds (300GB/15GB) of copy/paste each with a chunk of 15GB.

  • Setup an NFS share on PC2 and mount it on PC1, Recommended Ethernet cable connection instead of WiFi for quick transfer.

    Reference: Ubuntu Server Guide: Network File System (NFS)

    PC2: Server

    1. Install NFS server

      sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

    2. Setup share folder

      sudo nano /etc/exports

/media/<username>/<partition-name>/<shared-folder>    *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

    3. Start the NFS service

      sudo service nfs-kernel-server start

    PC1: Client

    1. Install NSF client tools

      sudo apt-get install nfs-common

    2. Mount the shared folder

      sudo mkdir /mnt/pc2-nfs
sudo chown <username> <username> /mnt/pc2-nfs
sudo mount <pc2-ip>:/media/<username>/<partition-name>/<shared-folder>  /mnt/pc2-nfs
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