PhotoRec vs R-Linux
PhotoRec
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R-Linux
r-studio.comSide by side
| Figure | PhotoRec | R-Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Data recovery software | 8.7 (#11) | 8.2 (#30) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Limits | The maker says PhotoRec does not work well with ReiserFS and usually cannot recover original filenames. | Unlike R-Studio, R-Linux cannot recover data over a network, reconstruct RAIDs, or provide object copy. |
| Memory card recovery | Yes | Yes |
| Operating systems | Windows; Linux; macOS; DOS; FreeBSD; NetBSD; OpenBSD; Solaris; other Unix systems | Linux; Windows |
| RAID recovery | Yes | No |
| Recovery sources | hard disks; CD-ROMs; memory cards; USB memory drives; DD raw images; EnCase E01 images | Hard disks; CDs; DVDs; floppy disks; Compact Flash cards; USB drives; ZIP drives; Memory Sticks; other removable media |
| Support | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. | R-Tools Technology provides technical support information and a way to inquire about technical issues on its Technical Support page. |
Plans
In their own words
PhotoRec
PhotoRec is a free file recovery program for retrieving lost videos, documents, archives, and pictures from storage media and disk images. It searches the underlying data instead of relying on the file system, which can help after file-system damage or reformatting. It recognizes more than 480 file extensions across about 300 file families, and listed file systems include FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, and HFS+.
Supported sources include hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards, USB drives, raw disk images, and EnCase E01 images. PhotoRec runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, DOS, several BSD systems, Solaris, and other Unix systems. It accesses the recovery drive or card in read-only mode; recovered files should go to a different partition. The portable download runs after extracting its archive, without an installer. QPhotoRec provides a graphical interface, while PhotoRec can also run from scripts or batch files with command-line options. The maker says it usually cannot recover original filenames and does not work well with ReiserFS.
R-Linux
R-Linux is a free file-recovery utility for Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4 file systems, with host versions for Linux and Windows. It can recover files after virus attacks, power failures, partition reformatting or deletion, and from disks with bad sectors. Recovery sources include hard disks, CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, Compact Flash cards, USB drives, ZIP drives, Memory Sticks, and other removable media. Memory-card recovery and file preview are supported, but RAID recovery is not. IntelligentScan can search devices with unknown file systems for known file types. R-Linux can create compressed, split, and password-protected disk or partition images, scanning while images are created; compressed images work with R-Drive Image. Bad-sector disks can be copied to an image for processing. Recovered files can be saved to any host-accessible disk, including network disks. Help documentation lists Linux mdadm and LVM/LVM2 volumes. The Linux version requires a kernel 2.6-or-newer RPM or DEB distribution, X.Org X server 1.7.6 or newer, and root privileges.