content/blog/2024-12-11-ddrescue.md

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-+++
-title = "Introduction to ddrescue"
-date = "2024-12-11"
-updated = "2024-12-11"
-[extra]
-authors = ["Ydreniv"]
-+++
-
-Let’s suppose one of your friends come to you with a computer issue.
-They’ve got a failing hard drive, and want to recover the data stored on their
-device.
-They are quite worried, as they have important files on it, and it’s their
-only copy.
-Of course, this would never happen to you, because you keep multiple encrypted
-backups of all your data, in multiple place.
-Only a worldwide apocalypse would get you a dataloss.
-So this definitely could *only* happen to a friend, or a family member, but
-not you.
-It would be preposterous to think otherwise.
-
-So anyway, you want to copy the hard-drive.
-You quickly plug it in your computer, mount it and open the file explorer.
-But the mount takes a long time, accessing the files is very slow, and copying
-them does not always work.
-Plus, the [SMART](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A.R.T.) statistics show
-that this drive has *issues*.
-How do you extract the important data then ?
-By the look of it, the vast majority of the drive sectors are fine, so what
-you’re looking for still exists.
-It’s merely hard to access.
-It’s only a hardware problem.
-
-If you manage to image the drive, you can then either use it as a mounted
-file, or burn it to another drive.
-You could use good old `dd`.
-Maybe this would work.
-But here, with your friend’s disk on its deathbed, you’d like a tool adapted
-for this situation.
-Here comes…
-**[ddrescue](https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/)**.
-
-`ddrescue` operates on unmounted devices, and will copy a device block by
-block.
-Even better, it has error handling integrated.
-When it cannot read a block, it will either retry or pass it, depending on the
-options you’ve selected.
-And, crucially, it can store its status in a file, meaning that if you stop
-the process, you’ll be able to resume it later.
-This way, you can quickly recover all easily available blocks, while still
-retaining the ability to do several passes on the failing ones.
-
-I’m still a novice in `ddrescue`, so read the [Archlinux wiki
-page](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Disk_cloning#Using_ddrescue) to get
-specific instructions.
-The Archlinux wiki is overall pretty good, and is one of my main source of
-help on Linux, even with other distributions.
-In my experiment, it has been able to recover all the disk’s sectors, except
-for 47 of them.
-I let it run for at least 50 hours I guess (I haven’t counted) over multiple
-sessions.
-I could probably try to make more passes, to eventually recover the full disk,
-but I’m not sure it’s worth it (and even possible).
-
-It’s reassuring to know that I’ve now safeguarded most of the data.
-Now that I have a mostly complete image, I’ve started trying to read them.
-Unfortunately, the missing blocks do prevent me from simply mounting the
-resulting image.
-So I’ve still gotta do some work to actually get what I wanted (copying the
-files to another drive), but at least I know that the current image is safe,
-and that there shouldn’t be further data loss.
-
-So if you’re confronted with data recovery, I recommend giving `ddrescue` a
-look. It’s quite a useful tool !
-

content/ideas.md

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 title = "Ideas"
 template = "ideas.html"
 date = "2022-11-01"
-updated = "2024-12-12"
+updated = "2024-12-09"
 extra = { "theme" = "ideas.css" }
 +++
 
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   I'm not sure such a list would be truly useful, but it would be nice to have
   it, as I currently lack such an overview.
 * Take a look at [IndieWeb](https://indieweb.org/)
-  * This is quite an open-ended task, a bit "unachievable".
-  * I rather need to determine the specific features I want to implement.
 * Learn more about [Microformats](https://indieweb.org/microformats)
   ([Microformats](https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2))
-  * `h-card` and `h-entry` have been implemented here. (`h-card` might not be
-    implemented in every page.)
+  * `h-card` and `h-entry` have been implemented here.
   * To be implemented on my other static websites
 * Learn about [Micropub](https://indieweb.org/Micropub)
 * Learn about [Webmention](https://indieweb.org/Webmention)
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 * A
   [/feeds](https://marcus.io/blog/making-rss-more-visible-again-with-slash-feeds) page.
 * A standard Zola development base for my websites
-  * I’m not sure this would really be useful.
 * [Documentation about
   self-hosting](https://unknown-artist-selfhost.frama.io/selfhost-wiki/)
 * A `/uses` page, explaining how this website works (Zola, IndieWeb etc)
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 * A page using <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans'">Comic Sans</span>.
 * A CLI-like page (green on black).
+* A page with all kinds of blinkies, 80x15 buttons and the like. I'm already
+  collecting some in the footer of this site, but I'd like a page with the
+  ones I make and the other cool I find.
+  * [Web Badges World](https://web.badges.world/) has some nice stuff.
+  * [SH2/Buttons](https://sh2.us/buttons) too
+  * Done [here](@/buttons.md)
 * Buttons for my various websites
-* Make website responsive :
-  * [~ydreniv](#)
-  * [Minis](https://minis.kestrels-and-roses.rocks)
 
 ### Miscellaneous
 
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   Docker reference !
 
 </section>
-
-
-<section>
-
-## Done
-
-* A page with all kinds of blinkies, 80x15 buttons and the like. I'm already
-  collecting some in the footer of this site, but I'd like a page with the
-  ones I make and the other cool I find.
-  * [Web Badges World](https://web.badges.world/) has some nice stuff.
-  * [SH2/Buttons](https://sh2.us/buttons) too
-  * Done [here](@/buttons.md)
-
-</section>