DDRescue-GUI

ddrescue taking forever...please help!

Asked by john kevin

Hi there,
I've been running ddrescue GUI on a macbook pro trying to recover/mirror a 3TB drive through to another 4TB drive. problem is I've been running it constantly 24 hours a day for over 2 weeks and I'm at 25%. It looks like it will take another 7-8 weeks. :( From memory I'm running it at the suggested or standard settings

Is there anything I can do? maybe stop it and start again from the log file at different settings?
If so how can I do this?
If I do this will it continue from the 25% point or start from the beginning?
do I do this with the abort button?

Im a newbie so some step by step info would be great.

thanks in advance.
charlie

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#1

Hi Carlie,

That's not too bad - could be much slower!

Check if your drive is overheating - it may need some cooling or a rest to speed up a bit.

As long as the input, output, and log files are the same, you can restart as many times as you like and change the other settings without losing progress :) Yes you would use the abort button.

Try aborting and starting again with the same input, output, and log files with the "read backwards" option enabled - this may give you better results.

Hope this helps,
Hamish

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john kevin (ckcharlie) said : 		#2

Hi Hamish,

Thanks. still confused.
I stopped it but how do I restart it with the log file?
When I select the previous log file in the Recovery log file drop down menu (specify path/file) it says: A file or folder with the same name already exists in the folder Desktop. Replacing it will overwrite its current contents.
do I do this?

My destination shows 2 options:
/dev/disk 4 device
/dev/disk 4s1 partition

I'm not sure which one to select?

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#3

Yes you do that.

You need to pick which ever one it was that you picked when you first started the recovery. You probably picked disk4 I'm guessing.

Hamish

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