On 25 July 2011 17:57, Amos Shapira <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 July 2011 17:23, Sonia Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: >> * Jake Anderson <[email protected]> [2011-07-23 22:35:30 +1000]: >> >>> +1 for ddrescue >>> works well. >>> >>> On 07/23/2011 07:15 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: >>> >You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad >>> >blocks. >>> >On Jul 22, 2011 10:14 PM, "Simon Males"<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've found that myrescue is better than ddrescue, especially with >> corrupted devices. It has options for exponential backoff of corrupted >> sections, retries, etc >> >> sudo aptitude install myrescue > > Are you sure you are comparing to the GNU version of ddrescue? Be > aware that there is a confusing none-GNU ddrescue which might be a bit > simplistic. "exponential backoff" etc sound like the features of GNU > ddrescue I used to help a friend in need. (together with following > advise from SLUG to put the disk in the fridge every now and then to > help it stay up for longer, it was at the top of the summer hit too).
Here is a comparison of the various *rescue tools someone ran a couple of years ago: http://gumptravels.blogspot.com/2009/09/ddrescue-ddrescue-gddrescue-gnuddrescue.html Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
