Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Question

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Dean,

Dean Dodds wrote:
> First up I would just like to thank you for creating this program.

You are welcome. :-)


> I was just wondering if I can request one feature, or if there is a way of 
> doing this already. Is there anyway for ddrescue to recover an entire directory 
> rather than individual files?

Ddrescue is usually used to copy whole devices or partitions, but all 
the files in a directory can be copied using, for example, a 'for' loop:

  for i in * ; do ddrescue $i /somedir/$i /somedir/$i.log ; done 



Best regards,
Antonio.