DDrescue GUI abort questions

Asked by Paul Storic

Currently running a DDrescue GUI job on an external 2TB drive that had some not so crucial data on it. I know it has bad blocks so I just wanted to see if I could get the bulk of the data off. Started it last night and to my surprise it's a 97% already but the last 3% ETA shows 18 min in the GUI but in the terminal window shows 5 days and keeps bouncing up and down. Can I cancel it at this point safely? if I get 97% of what's on there that's fine, I just don't want to cancel it and have no data available on the target drive. Not sure how that works.

Not using a log file. I know you're supposed to be I just did this recovery quick and dirty. Normally I would use one. Not sure if that affects my scenario but I'm not looking to resume it later.

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said :
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It's safest to try to let it run to completion. Because you don't have a log/map file, you will have to start from scratch if you can't access the data, so I'd advise waiting until it's complete/not recovering any more data.

It probably would be okay, but it depends on what it hasn't been able to read yet. It might be empty space, an unimportant file, or it might be part of the partition table.

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