DD-rescue

Description

Data recovery and data protection tool.

Installation

$ wget http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/dd_rescue-1.99.8.tar.bz2
$ bzip2 -cd dd_rescue-1.99.8.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
$ cd dd_rescue-1.99.8/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Usage

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Example

$ dd_rescue sda1 file.img 

dd_rescue: (info): Using softbs=65536  
dd_rescue: (info): expect to copy 37747712kB from dev/sda1  
dd_rescue: (info): ipos: 1758208.0k, opos: 1758208.0k, xferd: 1758208.0k  
errs: 0, errxfer: 0.0k, succxfer: 1758208.0k  
+curr.rate: 197836kB/s, avg.rate: 108919kB/s, avg.load: 44.5%