How To Install safecopy on Fedora 34

safecopy is Safe copying of files and partitions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install safecopy on Fedora 34.

What is safecopy

safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, harddisk partitions, CDs, tape devices, …, where other tools like dd would fail doe to I/O errors.

We can use yum or dnf to install safecopy on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install safecopy.

Install safecopy on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install safecopy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install safecopy

Install safecopy on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install safecopy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install safecopy

How To Uninstall safecopy on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the safecopy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove safecopy

safecopy Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/safecopy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/9f8ca0e3221e18bb68850a777ccbfbe7546eb7
/usr/share/doc/safecopy
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/README
/usr/share/man/man1/safecopy.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install safecopy on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.