Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Help rescuing my 500GB disk

[Andrej Trobentar]

On 11/13/2013 12:18 AM, Scott D wrote:

Andrej,
I see you show 9.20% rescued at this time. I am curious, do you remember what the percentage was from ddru_ntfsbitmap? If you don't remember for sure, you could run ddrescuelog on the domain file to find out:

"ddrescuelog -t domain_logfile"

"Rescued" will = used space that you are trying to recover, and "non-tried" will = free space that you are ignoring

Here's my status so far :

current pos:   270988 MB,  current status: copying
domain size:   500104 MB,  in    1 area(s)
    rescued:   106890 MB,  in 2718 area(s)  ( 21.37%)
  non-tried:   350152 MB,  in 3470 area(s)  ( 70.01%)

    errsize:    43061 MB,  errors:    2438  (  8.61%)
non-trimmed:    43057 MB,  in 4026 area(s)  (  8.60%)
  non-split:         0 B,  in    0 area(s)  (  0%)
 bad-sector:     4617 kB,  in 5340 area(s)  (  0.00%)


I have now come to an area (around 270GB) where my disk starts to fail and fail and even power cycling doesn't help, so I tried this command to hopefully skip the troubled area :

"ddrescue -m /tmp/domain_logfile -vvvv -i 275GB -n /dev/sdb1 /tmp/Image.img /tmp/Image.log"

and now my disc slowly continues again. When the drive fails again I'll continue with the command :

"ddrescue -m /tmp/domain_logfile -vvvv -n /dev/sdb1 /tmp/Image.img /tmp/Image.log"

If my drive comes again to a troubled area (and even power cycling doesn't help) I'll just adjust the -i parameter as before.


Now to my question :

-  will ddrescue automatically stop when it reaches the end of the used portion of the partition (315720 MB in my case) or must I end it with CTRL+C?
- what's the next step after that?

Greetings from Slovenia,

        Andrej.