[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.24-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

GNU ddrescue 1.24-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.24-rc1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
6c8e9e3dfa10aa74ff086714859174de47a405535a2997b963135bb9d156a1aa 
ddrescue-1.24-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or 
block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the 
good parts first in case of read errors.

Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue mapfiles, shows mapfile 
contents, converts mapfiles to/from other formats, compares mapfiles, 
tests rescue status, and can delete a mapfile if the rescue is done.

The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html


Changes in this version:

  * Ddrescue now tries to create a backup copy of the mapfile, with the 
name <mapfile>.bak, every time it is going to overwrite a fsynced mapfile.

  * On startup, ddrescue now verifies that the backup copy of the 
mapfile (if it exists) is not a non-regular file, and that its name is 
not the same as infile or outfile.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, GNU ddrescue author and maintainer.
Spain has no right to hold Catalonia captive against the will of most 
Catalans.
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If you care about long-term archiving, please help me replace xz with 
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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.