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goldmoon
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I want to learn about the disk imaging tool safeback. But none of the sites I searched give more details about it. Is it still live? Then who owns it now? The latest version known from the internet sources is safeback 3.0 and is released in 2003 as per this news. What happened to that disk imager which once is considered as industry standard? Many pages ask to visit this site for more details, but it is not accessible.

I have made a quote on logon software. But did not get any response. If anyone have any idea on safeback, please share

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 10:56 am
Igor_Michailov
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I am looking for Safeback 2 for 10 years. I know that Safeback 2 better than Safeback 3.
But now I don't have Safeback 2. cry

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 11:02 am
goldmoon
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Do you have any documents on how safeback 2 or 3 works?

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 11:07 am
Adam10541
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Just out of curiosity why would you want software that is over a decade old?

What would that software offer that more recent software wouldn't?

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 11:16 am
goldmoon
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I searched for its working to know the restoring method and surprised that it is no longer available.

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 11:31 am
Igor_Michailov
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Do you have any documents on how safeback 2 or 3 works?

Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition by Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia and Matt Pepe

pages 164-168

"Safeback, offered by New Technologies Inc. (NTI), can make a qualified forensic duplicate of any hard drive that is accessible through a system’s drive controllers, including ATA and SCSI drives. Even devices accessed through a driver, such as a PCMCIA hard drive, can be imaged when the Direct Access option is not selected. Safeback is a small application that is designed to run a DOS boot floppy, so you will need to have a clean DOS environment ready on a boot floppy, as described in the previous section…"

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 1:24 pm
jaclaz
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Many pages ask to visit this site for more details, but it is not accessible.

Wayback Machine to the rescue )
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http//www.forensics-intl.com/

The site is particularly well cached, though the technical info seems like "scarce"
https://web.archive.org/web/20101122174457/http//forensics-intl.com/safeback.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20101122184507/http//forensics-intl.com/sb-order.html

jaclaz

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 2:36 pm
goldmoon
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Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition by Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia and Matt Pepe

pages 164-168

Thank you )

Already referred the book. It tells how to use safeback, not the technical details.

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 4:31 pm
goldmoon
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Many pages ask to visit this site for more details, but it is not accessible.

Wayback Machine to the rescue )
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http//www.forensics-intl.com/

The site is particularly well cached, though the technical info seems like "scarce"
https://web.archive.org/web/20101122174457/http//forensics-intl.com/safeback.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20101122184507/http//forensics-intl.com/sb-order.html

jaclaz

Thank you )

It seems no update has been happened until aug 2011 and the page is not available after that. They provide only a little technical details (

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 4:38 pm
jaclaz
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It seems no update has been happened until aug 2011 and the page is not available after that. They provide only a little technical details (

Yep, the Internet Archive can archive contents, not "create them" when they are missing altogether wink

JFYI, Paraben's P2 Commander
https://www.paraben.com/p2-commander.html
can access/read images taken in the Safeback format, and I believe also FTK , mount image, Encase and possibly another number of forensic tools (at least for v2), so I believe that at least the file format used in Safeback v2 should not be too difficult to understand, if you have a few samples.
But there is also the Freeware P2 Explorer
https://www.paraben.com/p2-explorer.html

You might also want to peruse these (though I doubt they will contain anything particularly useful)
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/199000.pdf
https://www.justnet.org/pdf/200032.pdf
http//www.cftt.nist.gov/documents/SafeBack%202.18%20Procedures.pdf
http//codeidol.com/community/security/safeback/22540/
https://web.archive.org/web/20010117070500/http//www.sydex.com/sbqa.html

jaclaz

 
Posted : 24/07/2014 6:35 pm
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