Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue bug with overwriting the mapfile

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Meanwhile you could use something similar (on Unix-like systems):

cp /HD.log /HD_`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M`.log  &&  sudo ddrescue ....

koll

On 2019.01.06. 14:14, "Joe Kickman" wrote:

>Hello. Sometimes while rescuing I see the situation of hanging PC. If the
>hang happens at the moment of rewriting the log/map file - it gets size
>of 0 :(. Luckily, the times that happened I had an almost recent backup
>copy. 40 minutes of work was lost. As for a 3Tb drive - it is almost
>nothing, that drive is being copied already for 3 days, now it is 90%
>done.
>I propose to first rename the log, adding .bak at the end, flush file
>buffer to disk (sync) and then write the new log file from memory to
>disk, thus always having a recent backup. A similar mechanism is used by
>hddsuperclone, and it was able to recover the log some times I have seen.
>And 2 people wrote to me reporting the same problem. So I've got myself
>to inform the whole community.
>
>What do you think?
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