Alpine rescue

Basics

Name	Description	URL
alpine-base	Alpine base package	http://alpinelinux.org
alpine-mirrors	List of Alpine Linux Mirrors	http://alpinelinux.org/
bkeymaps	Binary keymaps for busybox	http://dev.alpinelinux.org/alpine/bkeymaps

Misc

Name	Description	URL
openssh	Port of OpenBSD's free SSH	http://www.openssh.org/portable.html
e2fsprogs	Standard Ext2/3/4 filesystem utilities	http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
mdadm	A tool for managing Linux Software RAID arrays	http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm
lvm2	Logical Volume Manager 2 utilities	http://sourceware.org/lvm2/
parted	Utility to create, destroy, resize, check and copy partitions	http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html
debootstrap	Debian/Ubuntu bootstrap scripts	http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debootstrap.html
ntfs-3g	A userspace ntfs driver with write support	A userspace ntfs driver with write support
tzdata	Timezone data	http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
p7zip	A command-line port of the 7zip compression utility	http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
nano	A simple ncurses text editor	http://www.nano-editor.org/

Backup

Name	Description	URL
rdiff-backup	A backup utility that maintains extra reverse diffs so that files can be restored from previous backups.	http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backup/
rsync	A file transfer program to keep remote files in sync	http://rsync.samba.org/
partclone	Back up and restore used-blocks of a partition	http://partclone.org

Data recovery tools

Name	Description	URL
dc3dd	Patched version of GNU dd for use in computer forensics	http://dc3dd.sourceforge.net/
testdisk	A powerful free data recovery software	http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
scrub	Disk scrubbing program	http://code.google.com/p/diskscrub/