Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Merging two images from the same recovery....

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Mike,

Dependable-Mike wrote:
> So now I have two partial images of the drive that mostly don't overlap...
> and two matching log files to go with them that define the good areas and
> slow areas skipped.

The best way of merging two images is using the "-m, --domain-logfile" 
option. It restricts the rescue domain to the blocks marked as finished 
in the given logfile, so it will copy to the target image only what has 
been already rescued in the source image.

If you issued the commads:

  cd dir1
  ddrescue -n -a<something> /dev/hda image logfile

and then

  cd dir2
  ddrescue -n -a<something> /dev/hda image logfile

you can merge the images by typing:

  cd dir1
  ddrescue -m dir2/logfile dir2/image image logfile

This creates the files dir1/logfile dir1/image with all the data 
currently rescued. Then you can continue the rescue for example like this:

  cd dir1
  ddrescue -n -a<something> /dev/hda image logfile
  ddrescue -d r1 /dev/hda image logfile


> PS the new features of RC1 are great and are working as expected for me with
> no problems. The only problems I'm facing are operator induced! ;O)

Thanks for the feedback.


Antonio.