Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Rescued size got bigger after restarting ddrescue

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Daniel,

Daniel Magrin dos Santos wrote:
> When I came back I typed "ddrescue -n /dev/sdb image log" to restart
> it, but then I saw it was displaying 320GB rescued and "Trimming
> failed blocks".
> I checked the image file and it was around ~300GB as expected. Did I
> do something wrong or is this a bug? What should I do to get it
> rescuing back from ~300GB?

The image file must be at least as large as the rescued size because it 
contains the rescued data plus probably some not-yet-rescued holes. If 
ddrescue is displaying a rescued size larger than the image file it is a 
bug.

This said, be careful with the units. 300GiB are about 322GB. Did you 
use the -B option the first time?

In theory you do not need to do anything more, but wait, for ddrescue to 
continue rescuing where you stopped it.

I hope you can get all your data back. Good luck!


Best regards,
Antonio.