This is actually quite counter to what ddrescue does, but I frequently
get drives that need to be handled in the following way;
I need ddrescue to exit (with non-zero code perhaps) as soon as the
read rate hits zero, so that I can then power down the HDD, wait a few
minutes, and then have it power back up, all using a script, ie;
bin/sh
while [ 1 -eq 1 ]; do
ddrescue --exit-on-zero -v -f /dev/sde img log
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
exit
fi
powerSwitch off
sleep 180
powerSwich on
sleep 10
done
Basically the hard drives will run for a couple of minutes before
shutting down, letting me get about 1~10GB of data off, but I don't
want to have to keep manually checking and restarting to reclaim the
whole 500GB in this particular case.
Of course, worst case scenario, I'll just adjust the source-code myself
for now :)
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