Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Feature request: email notifications about the progress

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello ST,

ST wrote:
> first of all: thank you very much for the great tool - it "rescues" a
> lot of people worldwide!

You are welcome. :-)

BTW, many people could avoid using ddrescue if they made regular 
backups. Specially if lzip is used to compress the backups[1].

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html


> I'd like to propose following feature: email notifications about the
> progress. I.e. the process of creating an image of a failing drive might
> be long, very long. It would be nice to have the ability to make
> ddrescue inform about its progress once in a while. Like send an email
> to a provided address every 3 days, reporting the progress; or send an
> email every 25% recovered...

It sounds interesting but difficult. Sending email requires 
configurating some software to access the mail server. Suggestions about 
the best way of implementing this feature are welcome.


Best regards,
Antonio.