Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Question about interrupting a disk-to-disk recovery

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Jessica,

Jessica wrote:
> The recovery has been running for a couple of weeks now (uhuh, weeks), and
> has been on 'Trimming failed blocks...' for the last week.

Trimming is slow (it reads backwards one sector at a time). In your case 
it seems there are a lot of blocks to trim.

I would try the following:

1) stop the rescue and move the logfile to a safe and non-volatile place.

2) run ddrescue with the --direct option. This should avoid caching and 
increase speed of trimming.

3) if 2 fails, try the option --try-again.


> My question is: if I interrupt the process at this point, can I mount &
> CHKDSK the destination drive and expect to see usable data? Or will the
> partition structure not yet be complete?

This will modify the destination filesystem, and then you won't be able 
to resume the copy meaningfully.


Regards,
Antonio.