Re: [Bug-ddrescue] minor documentation bug: '--retry-passes' should be '--retries'

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Robert,

Robert Trevellyan wrote:
> The online manual at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html shows the
> option
> '--retry-passes=n'
> but the program actually accepts
> '--retries=n'
> as indicated when invoking the program with '--help'.

I guess you are running an old version of ddrescue. The online manual is 
for version 1.18. The change was announced here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue/2014-06/msg00011.html

 * The long name of option "-r" has been changed to "--retry-passes" to 
make it clear that ddrescue tries each sector only once per retry pass.


> Thanks for developing and maintaining this excellent tool. One lady thought
> she had lost all her photos of her son growing up, but ddrescue recovered
> everything.

My pleasure. I hope she has now made a couple of backups.


Best regards,
Antonio.