Re: [Bug-ddrescue] DDRESCUE examples in the GNU website + 1 kind question

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Felix Ehlermann wrote:
> > I've run a windows tool that allows to run direclty in reverse mode.
> > Yes, it is slower, but it read straightly over 75% of the drive.
>
> If all you need is copying in reverse mode you could also just use 
> dd_rescue in reverse-mode for that

How it is that, after asking it for months, no one noticed that reverse 
mode was implemented in ddrescue 1.14[1][2]? And it keeps all the good 
features of forward mode (multiple passes, retries, etc).

[1]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue/2010-11/msg00010.html
[2]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue/2011-01/msg00032.html

  * The new option "-R, --reverse", which reverses direction of copy 
operations, has been added.


Best regards,
Antonio.