GNU ddrescue
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GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool for disk drives, DVDs, CDs, and other digital storage media. It copies raw blocks of storage, such as disk sectors, from one device or file to another, while handling read errors in an intelligent manner to minimize data loss by scraping good sectors from partially read blocks.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Part of
- GNU Project
- Movement
- free software movement
- Official website
- www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue_it.html
- Image
- Ddrescue 2.png
- Has use
- data recovery
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- Commons category
- GNU ddrescue
- inception
- 2004-00-00
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
- software version identifier
- 1.30
- programmed in
- C++
- user manual URL
- www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html
- operating system
- macOS
- mailing list archive URL
- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue
- different from
- dd
- source code repository URL
- ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Description
- Algorithm
- Fill mode
- Unrelated recovery tools
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool for disk drives, DVDs, CDs, and other digital storage media. It copies raw blocks of storage, such as disk sectors, from one device or file to another, while handling read errors in an intelligent manner to minimize data loss by scraping good sectors from partially read blocks.
GNU ddrescue is written in the C++ programming language, and is available as open-source software that was originally released in 2004. It is also available in binary form as a component in most Linux distributions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GNU ddrescue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.