Re: [Bug-ddrescue] How to do this...?

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Paul L Daniels wrote:

> Basically the hard drives will run for a couple of minutes before 
> shutting down, letting me get about 1~10GB of data off, but I don't want 
> to have to keep manually checking and restarting to reclaim the whole 
> 500GB in this particular case.
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FWIW, i'm working on a drive right now that can go for hours without a 
successful read... then it gives me a few sectors before going back to bad 
sectors and 0b/s data rate.

anyway, based on your request, here's what i'd do...

while :
do
        sha1sum /path/to/log/file > /tmp/log-file-hash
        sleep 300 ## more or less
        sha1sum /path/to/log/file | diff -q - /tmp/log-file-hash
        if [ $? == 0 ]
        then
                ## this code runs if the log file hasn't changed
                ## do something
        fi
done

you may (or may not) want to exclude the "current_pos" line from the 
logfile. you may want to test to see if the ddrescue process is still 
running, and hasn't finished. you may also need to re-start ddrescue if 
the source drive is powered off.

it would be convenient if ddrescue accepted a signal (eg USR1, ALRM) as a 
way to force it to flush the logfile... but if you wait a few minutes 
it'll update by itself.


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