Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 1.3 - questions from a newbie

[Ariel]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Matt Boge wrote:

> Small correction, it had been running about 12 hours when I posted 
> before... now, about 20 hours since starting here is the status:

> Current status 
> rescued: 29716 MiB,   errsize: 37764 KiB,   current rate: 3584 KiB/s
>   ipos: 29753 MiB,    errors:   802,       average rate:  476 KiB/s
>   opos: 29753 MiB

Looks normal. As of the data it tried so far, 29753MiB, it rescued 
29716MiB, and didn't rescue 37764KiB, for a success rate of 99.87%. That's 
quite good.

If the entire hard disk works out that way, be happy!

Remember to save the logfile every once in a while like I mentioned.

Maybe you have a USB key you can use? If you can, stop ddrescue move the 
logfile to the USB key, and restart it - telling ddrescue where the 
logfile is. It will continue where it left off.

Or maybe don't touch it, hopefully the computer won't crash.

        -Ariel