dd_rhelp allows users to retrieve, easily and quickly, recoverable data from any device with bad sectors. It will copy it using dd_rescue in all the appropriate ways (reverse copy, setting start and stop offset accordingly to previously rescued data) to recover the maximum data possible before spending time on bad sectors. It is straightforward to use, can resume a job (or standalone dd_rescue job) by parsing the dd_rescue logs, supports ctrl+c at anytime and displays a nice ASCII progress indicator showing rescue progress.Important note
For some times, dd_rhelp was the only tool (AFAIK) that did this type of job, but since a few years, it is not true anymore: Antonio Diaz did write a ideal replacement for my tool: GNU 'ddrescue'.
Yes, this is not very clever to have called a tool the same name that 'dd_rescue' from Kurt Garloff (catch the subtle difference between 'ddrescue' and 'dd_rescue'?), but it seems that it was done by intent as we warned Antonio Diaz from the fact it would probably mess users in this tiny world of hard drive recovery tools.
Nevertheless, I really encourage you to use this replacement tool if it works for you (and it should be the case). Why? Understand first what we are comparing :
- dd_rhelp (in bash script) + dd_rescue (in C) in one hand
- ddrescue (in C) in the other.
dd_rhelp was meant as a quick hack to implement what dd_rescue didn't do, and what
couldn't be done at that time (AFAIK).
It could be some cases where ddrescue won't work, and this is the major reason why I keep maintaining dd_rhelp. It is important to tell me and Antonio Diaz when these cases occur.
Now that you are enlightened, you are free to use dd_rhelp.
Homepage: http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/
Download: http://www.kalysto.org/pkg/dd_rhelp-0.1.2.tar.gz
Changelog: http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/changelog/
Mirror site: http://vaab.free.fr
License: GNU General Public License
