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Questions about ddrescue (released by Antonio Diaz)

April 24th, 2008, 2:46

Hello,
I have 2 questions about ddrescue:
if I want to clone HDD with ddrescue in reverse mode (from 80000Mb to 0Mb), how must command line look?
when I brake clonning (example, ddrescue clones 4000Mb) and want resume clonning (from 4000Mb), how must command line look? :-)

Re: Questions about ddrescue (released by Antonio Diaz)

April 25th, 2008, 17:36

-r -s 8000M -m 4000M

should start at 8000 meg and copy a maximum amount of 4000 megs in reverse direction. The options may differ between build, therefore you should check with your version, it will tell you everything you need to know!

Re: Questions about ddrescue (released by Antonio Diaz)

April 29th, 2008, 1:23

shaun wrote:-r -s 8000M -m 4000M

should start at 8000 meg and copy a maximum amount of 4000 megs in reverse direction. The options may differ between build, therefore you should check with your version, it will tell you everything you need to know!




-m option You can find just in dd_rescue, not in ddrescue :) btw, option -r in ddrescue means exit after given retries (-1=infinity) [0], not reverse direction copy.
so, how to copy in reverse mode with ddrescue? :)
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