Hello
In my other message, the disk seems to have a series of bad areas
scattered across the disk. Because of the extended delays when
ddrescue hits a bad spot, I have aborted it a few times, and told it
to start again a GB further on. This unfortunately means that I am
missing the good bits between the end of the bad area and where I
tell it to start again.
For example, say the disk has a bad spot at 500M, and that bad spot
is 20MB long. Using my method, I might stop it, then start again at
1GB. This means that I am missing out on copying 480MB because I do
not know that the bad spot is only 20MB long.
The earlier dd_rescue had the ability to read backwards, ie, I could
have told it to start at 1GB, and read backward until it gets the the
end of the bad area.
Is this possible in ddrescue? If not, could I suggest that it would
be a really useful feature.
Thanks
David
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IT Consulting and Support
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