Rdkrsr Well the logfile format is documented in the ddrescue files...
But effectively you have a big chunk of readable data (0x4352F000 - I can't remember if it is bytes / blocks etc!) at the beginning of the disk: 0x00000000 0x4352F000 + Then a block of unreadable data 0x4352F000 0x00000200 - Then possibly readable data 0x4352F200 0x00011000 * Then Readable data 0x43540200 0x007A2E00 + Etc etc + = readable - = unreadable * = an area still to be processed (the rest of the initial data block that was attempted with the failed block, so it needs to be read in smaller blocks) If they are video files then you probably have some with 'holes' in from the failed block - may be possible to recover the rest of the file to a usable state. You will need to work out how the size of readable data areas compares with your expected file sizes to see if it is worth persevering - DDRescue will get the disk sectors into a file but you will then need another tool to recover the file system from that raw data. The 'average rate' will be very low while it is trying to read failed sectors and then will speed up when it reads good data... I usually get about 9MB/sec when using DDRescue to duplicate disks.... regards David Mitchell -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 28 October 2010 17:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Bug-ddrescue Digest, Vol 57, Issue 7 Send Bug-ddrescue mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Bug-ddrescue digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Is it possible to gather sth from the logfile of an ongoing rescue (rdkrsr) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:45:12 +0200 From: rdkrsr <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Is it possible to gather sth from the logfile of an ongoing rescue To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi! I have a corrupt 2 TB hard disk with mainly video files (NTFS, one volume, recorded by an DVB-S device). I have not very much hope to rescue something because at the beginning of the weird behaviour of the drive I might have worsened the state of it (use of Partition Magic etc.). There is no recognition of any file system and there are i/o errors. At the beginning the movies were "pausing" more and more during playback. Then it took unbearably long to copy something off of the drive. So I guess the drive is lost. Question: Yesterday I startet a ddrescue and it shows at the moment an average rate of 500 kB/s, which would mean more than 30 days for the process. So I wonder if there is a possibility to say something about the usefullness of the copied data by looking at the logfile. The file starts like following and goes on like that (+,-,*,+,-,*, ...) Cheers, rdkrsr # Rescue Logfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.11 # current_pos current_status 0xBCCAC0200 ? # pos size status 0x00000000 0x4352F000 + 0x4352F000 0x00000200 - 0x4352F200 0x00011000 * 0x43540200 0x007A2E00 + 0x43CE3000 0x00000200 - 0x43CE3200 0x0001D000 * 0x43D00200 0x0020CE00 + 0x43F0D000 0x00000200 - 0x43F0D200 0x00013000 * 0x43F20200 0x0032DE00 + 0x4424E000 0x00000200 - 0x4424E200 0x00012000 * 0x44260200 0x0034AE00 + 0x445AB000 0x00000200 - 0x445AB200 0x00015000 * 0x445C0200 0x0032AE00 + 0x448EB000 0x00000200 - 0x448EB200 0x00015000 * 0x44900200 0x00215E00 + 0x44B16000 0x00000200 - 0x44B16200 0x0001A000 * 0x44B30200 0x00AD8E00 + 0x45609000 0x00000200 - 0x45609200 0x00017000 * 0x45620200 0x016E4E00 + 0x46D05000 0x00000200 - 0x46D05200 0x0001B000 * 0x46D20200 0x0020FE00 + 0x46F30000 0x00000200 - 0x46F30200 0x00010000 * ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue End of Bug-ddrescue Digest, Vol 57, Issue 7 ******************************************* _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
