Hello, First of all thanks for making this very useful software.
I think there's a problem with ddrescue : the lack of an estimated time for accomplishment. Here's why : at the moment I'm cloning a 1TB hard drive with bad sectors to an other healthy drive (both connected in SATA) and for 400GB or so it went smoothly (pretty fast done in a few hours) but now it's being incredibly slow for 2 days or so (with speeds ranging from 1000B/s to 60000B/s). It would be good if ddrescue was able to tell us an ETA because now I can only wonder if my drive is going to be stuck like this for years or if the damaged area is only of a few gigas which would "only" take a week. In my case this is one of 3 disks of a raid 5 array, right now I'm not sure how much of my datas the 2 other disk still have, maybe most of it, my initial strategy to recover the datas was to ddrescue the disk with bad sectors first, but now that I realize this could take months or years I may have to try to recover my datas from the other two disks alone first. So having an estimate of the time it would take is crucial. I also wonder, is there a way to speed up the process even if it means a lower quality cloning? Further informations : the command I use : ddrescue -f -n /dev/sde /dev/sdf logfile currently 408749MB rescued and 9 errors (errsize : 762kB) Best regards, TK. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
