Unrecognizing arguments ( recuperabit )

Question

I am trying to recover my data from a ntfs partition.

I am using recuperabit .

I only want to recover the files of a particular folder.

folder name is reactNative.

partition is labelled as bakup.

command I tried:

rb main.py /media/ubuntu/bakup/reactNative/ -o recovery -s recovered

error:

rb: error: unrecognized arguments: /media/ubuntu/bakup/reactNative/

Note : I have symlinked it and named it as rb . This is the reference for symlink.

You're running a Python program with the Ruby interpreter. Try python main.py ... — Nonny Moose, Aug 03 '17 at 16:51
Oh, okay. I just want to note that this could break many Ruby programs... — Nonny Moose, Aug 03 '17 at 16:56
@NonnyMoose Ok ! actually I am on live usb so it will be deleted automatically when I ll shutdown. Its temporary — YaSh Chaudhary, Aug 03 '17 at 16:58
I suspect (based on the usage section of the RecuperaBit github page ) that you need to specify the options before the path i.e. rb main.py -o recovery -s recovered /media/ubuntu/bakup/reactNative/ — steeldriver, Aug 03 '17 at 17:36
Would you mind telling us why you are trying to pass a folder to RecuperaBit instead of a raw disk image or a block device? — Andrea Lazzarotto, Aug 04 '17 at 18:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '17 at 21:37

The command line you typed does not make sense

Note: I am the author of both the essay you linked and RecuperaBit itself.

The article is pretty clear about symlinking the main RecuperaBit executable:

ln -s /opt/RecuperaBit/main.py /usr/local/bin/recuperabit

Given that you are linking to the main.py program, you must not reference it again while running the software. Your command then would become:

recuperabit /media/ubuntu/bakup/reactNative/ -o recovery -s recovered

But again there is no way this would work. You are referencing a directory while the only mandatory argument of RecuperaBit is the disk image that you want to analyze. Or, at worst, a block device (this is not advised but may work).

A meaningful command could be similar to:

recuperabit /path/to/the/disk/image.dd -o recovery/ -s scan.save

All of these points are thoroughly discussed in the aforementioned article and here on Ask Ubuntu.

what if I dont have the image?...will it be created by ddrescue? — YaSh Chaudhary, Aug 05 '17 at 06:51

Unrecognizing arguments ( recuperabit )

1 Answers1

The command line you typed does not make sense