cvs commit: ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/dd_rescue Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/sysutils/dd_rescue/files patch-Makefile patch-dd_rescue.c

[MANTANI Nobutaka]

At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:41:41 +0000,
Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:09:49PM +0000, MANTANI Nobutaka wrote:
> > nobutaka    2005-03-14 17:09:49 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sysutils             Makefile 
> >   Added files:
> >     sysutils/dd_rescue   Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist 
> >     sysutils/dd_rescue/files patch-Makefile patch-dd_rescue.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Add dd_rescue, a dd tool suitable for rescuing data from a medium with errors.
> 
> What does it do what "dd -conv=noerror,sync" and phk's bad media recover tool
> cannot?

It has several features they don't have.

- It can read a file backwards from the end of the file.
- Don't abort on error until a error number reaches a maximum error
  number specified by a user (or don't abort at all).
- You can specify two block sizes, a small one used in the case of errors
  and a large one used in the normal case (It is similar to phk's recoverdisk).


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MANTANI Nobutaka
nobutaka at nobutaka.org, nobutaka at FreeBSD.org