dd_rescue

[BrianEWilliams]

I have dd_rescue running right now, trying to save the info from my failing hard drive. By my calculations, it should run another 40 hours, so I thought I'd ask a couple of questions.

I am running dd_rescue off of the very handy PTVupgrade boot CD-ROM v4.04. I have seen something called dd_rhelp. Should I have tried this first?

Also, can dd_rescue resume from where it left off? Maybe I have to have a log file to do this, and I didn't specify one. Wasn't sure where the log file gets written since I am booting off a cd-rom, and the only other two drives on the box are the old TiVo disk and the new TiVo disk.

I saw a tip that if dd_rescue doesn't work by seeking forward, you can tell it to seek backwards, and that might help it recover bad sectors. Any idea how to do this?

I tried running dd_rescue at first using the standard options listed elsewhere on another forum, but I was told the -B option wasn't valid, so that is why I just ran:

dd_rescue /dev/hda /dev/hdc

While this is slow, is there anything wrong with just running it like this?

Sorry for all the questions, but 40 hours is a lot of time to fill...

[WillowTheDog]

I don't know the answers to your questions, but I successfully ran dd_rescue several months ago to restore a failing drive. I knew nothing about dd_rescue when I started, but found everything I needed to know from the following thread:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=190306

[BrianEWilliams]

Thanks. I finally gave up on dd_rescue because it was slowing down and finding lots of errors. DIdn't want to wait two days and then still have a broken box. There weren't any crucial shows on it, so I decided to look for an image, which I found on another forum. I was amazed at how simple it was to restore the image.