Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 1.3 - questions from a newbie

[Matt Boge]

Thanks Ariel!  You have been a lot of help and I really appreciate it.
 
The log file is being saved to the floppy that I had ddrescue on... looks like 
there is plenty of room and I can hear it accessing and writing to it every 
little bit.
 
At least I'm encouraged now... the speed did pick up a bit (I'm now on 
ipos:38152 MiB) and the success rate it great (you're right... I'll be ecstatic 
if it holds up!)
 
I'm going to look over your previous post in some more detail and probably get 
back with some more questions.
 
Thanks again.
- Matt

----- Original Message ----
From: Ariel <address@hidden>
To: Matt Boge <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 6:25:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue 1.3 - questions from a newbie


On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Matt Boge wrote:

> Small correction, it had been running about 12 hours when I posted 
> before... now, about 20 hours since starting here is the status:

> Current status 
> rescued: 29716 MiB,   errsize: 37764 KiB,   current rate: 3584 KiB/s
>   ipos: 29753 MiB,    errors:   802,       average rate:  476 KiB/s
>   opos: 29753 MiB

Looks normal. As of the data it tried so far, 29753MiB, it rescued 
29716MiB, and didn't rescue 37764KiB, for a success rate of 99.87%. That's 
quite good.

If the entire hard disk works out that way, be happy!

Remember to save the logfile every once in a while like I mentioned.

Maybe you have a USB key you can use? If you can, stop ddrescue move the 
logfile to the USB key, and restart it - telling ddrescue where the 
logfile is. It will continue where it left off.

Or maybe don't touch it, hopefully the computer won't crash.

    -Ariel