bzip2recover

Additional Notes

bzip2recover attempts to recover data from damaged bzip2 files by splitting recoverable blocks into separate files. It cannot magically repair all corruption, but it may save parts of a compressed file.

Use it only when a .bz2 file is damaged and normal decompression fails.

Syntax

bzip2recover file.bz2

Parameters

• file.bz2: Damaged bzip2 file to scan.

Common Output

• rec00001file.bz2: Recovered block file.
• rec00002file.bz2: Another recovered block file.

Examples

bzip2recover broken-data.bz2

Try to recover blocks from a damaged file.

bunzip2 rec*.bz2

Decompress recovered block files.

cat rec*.out > recovered-parts.txt

Combine recovered text output when appropriate.

Practical Notes

• Work on a copy of damaged data.
• Recovery output may be incomplete or out of context.
• This is a last-resort tool, not a replacement for backups.