[Bug-ddrescue] Errsize decreasing while errors increasing?

[Daniel Santos]

Hi all,

 

I'm trying to rescue a 160 GiB Western Digital drive that started taking longer and longer to boot. Smart tells that it has no bad sectors, but something around 735 pending sectors.

ddrescue has been running for 3 days now, and so far the results are approximately 122GiB rescued, 38GiB errsize, and 12350 errors.
But why do errors increase, while errsize is decreasing?
And these 122GiB that are already recovered, are thay really good data, or could they be also corrupted?

I'm very confident that ddrescue will be able to do a good job. I'll keep the list informed of new results.

 

Thanks for the attention,

Cheers from Brazil