R-Studio Technician Feature Requests
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:09 pm
First off, I'm a big fan of R-Studio and appreciate all the work you've put into making a great product. Just a couple feature requests I'd love to see implemented, at least for those of us with a Technician license, if not for everyone.
1. When using the remote agent to copy a disk to an image or to another disk on the remote machine the copy speed is extremely slow. Seems like the data is having to travel across the internet/network and back even though both drives are in the same remote system. Is there a way the software could offload this to be handled entirely on the remote machine so the internet/network connection isn't a bottleneck? I realize that you might not be able to be scanning the data for lost files at the same time.
At times I'd like to be able to use the software to just help a client make a clone remotely which they can then physically mail in for recovery.
2. Support for XFS file system. (I know this will take some time)
3. Ability to open a terminal or cmd prompt ported to the remote machine. This would be useful if I need to reformat a drive on the remote before copying data to it or if I need to unmount a drive (in Mac OS) to be able to direct write to it. Or to use dd or ddrescue on the remote machine in case of issues getting a good image.
4. Ability to generate MD5 and SHA1 checksum and forensic log on an image file created of a drive/partition/region/etc. I know it can already do this for individual files, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to generate this for a whole image file, which is required as a part of proper data acquisition.
5. Ability to simultaneously copy an object to two destinations rather than just one. Combined with #4 above this would allow for proper data acquisition.
6. Ability to work with Encase image files with extension .E01
7. Ability to list files sequentially by their sector location on the disk. This would be helpful in cases where you're trying to piece together a fragmented file such as a VMDK image split into a few pieces.
8. Ability to adjust manually the offset from a file or group of files referenced location and it's actual location which happens to be at a different offset. I've had cases where a drive was re-partitioned / re-formatted and the partition layout was different from the original. R-Studio was able to find the files in RAW and able to find most of the references to the files, but couldn't seem to ever match the two because the offset was off (likely due to the new partition start throwing it off) and none of the found filesystem offsets seemed to match it.
9. Ability to work with PC-3000 split images
10. Faster speed working with RAID of very small block size (e.g. 1 sector stripe size)
11. Rename files in extra found files with common extensions.
12. Support for VMFS file system.
1. When using the remote agent to copy a disk to an image or to another disk on the remote machine the copy speed is extremely slow. Seems like the data is having to travel across the internet/network and back even though both drives are in the same remote system. Is there a way the software could offload this to be handled entirely on the remote machine so the internet/network connection isn't a bottleneck? I realize that you might not be able to be scanning the data for lost files at the same time.
At times I'd like to be able to use the software to just help a client make a clone remotely which they can then physically mail in for recovery.
2. Support for XFS file system. (I know this will take some time)
3. Ability to open a terminal or cmd prompt ported to the remote machine. This would be useful if I need to reformat a drive on the remote before copying data to it or if I need to unmount a drive (in Mac OS) to be able to direct write to it. Or to use dd or ddrescue on the remote machine in case of issues getting a good image.
4. Ability to generate MD5 and SHA1 checksum and forensic log on an image file created of a drive/partition/region/etc. I know it can already do this for individual files, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to generate this for a whole image file, which is required as a part of proper data acquisition.
5. Ability to simultaneously copy an object to two destinations rather than just one. Combined with #4 above this would allow for proper data acquisition.
6. Ability to work with Encase image files with extension .E01
7. Ability to list files sequentially by their sector location on the disk. This would be helpful in cases where you're trying to piece together a fragmented file such as a VMDK image split into a few pieces.
8. Ability to adjust manually the offset from a file or group of files referenced location and it's actual location which happens to be at a different offset. I've had cases where a drive was re-partitioned / re-formatted and the partition layout was different from the original. R-Studio was able to find the files in RAW and able to find most of the references to the files, but couldn't seem to ever match the two because the offset was off (likely due to the new partition start throwing it off) and none of the found filesystem offsets seemed to match it.
9. Ability to work with PC-3000 split images
10. Faster speed working with RAID of very small block size (e.g. 1 sector stripe size)
11. Rename files in extra found files with common extensions.
12. Support for VMFS file system.