safecopy command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

safecopy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: safecopy: command not found

Solutions to safecopy: command not found

How To Fix safecopy: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu safecopy is provided by safecopy package.

safecopy is:

Safecopy tries to get as much data from SOURCE as possible, even resorting to device specific low level operations if applicable. This is achieved by identifying problematic or damaged areas, skipping over them and continuing reading afterwards. The corresponding area in the destination file is either skipped (on initial creation that means padded with zeros) or deliberately filled with a recognizable pattern to later find affected files on a corrupted device. The work is similar to ddrescue, generating an image of the original media. This media can be floppy disks, harddisk partitions, CDs, DVDs, tape devices, where other tools like dd would fail due to I/O errors.

Safecopy uses an incremental algorithm to identify the exact beginning and end of bad areas, allowing the user to trade minimum accesses to bad areas for thorough data resurrection.

Multiple passes over the same file are possible, to first retrieve as much data from a device as possible with minimum harm, and then trying to retrieve some of the remaining data with increasingly aggressive read attempts.

Safecopy includes a low level I/O layer to read CDROM disks in raw mode, and issue device resets and other helpful low level operations on a number of other device classes.

Safecopy is useful in forensics investigations and disaster recovery.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install safecopy

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install safecopy.

sudo apt -y install safecopy

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install safecopy

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix safecopy command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.