FriendlyRoboCopy: A GUI to RoboCopy for Computer Forensic Investigators
A Masters Thesis...
This project
fulfills the requirements of the Masters Thesis in Interdisciplinary Computer
Science from Mills College.
Abstract
One of the challenges in
computer forensics today is the extraction of data from computer clusters. This
challenge exists when an investigator needs to copy data from such a cluster
with a file system that is not recognized by examiners' extraction
tools. It also exists because the nodes in the cluster cannot be traditionally
imaged. This has forced examiners to use system administrators' tools
such as RoboCopy. RoboCopy is a complicated command-line interface but robust
and supported by Microsoft. This thesis proposes FriendlyRoboCopy, a user
interface between examiners and the RoboCopy utility.
...and more
FriendlyRoboCopy is
freeware. Take a look. To use it, you can manually install all the different elements or you can automate some of the process by clicking the download FriendlyRoboCopy button below. Because I cannot install Perl on your computer without paying a license, you are responsible for doing it yourself. Remember, you are using
FriendlyRoboCopy at your own risks, and so I advise you read some of the documentation