Antonio Diaz Diaz said the following:
> John wrote:
>> Is it possible for me to write the output file to an external drive
>> when I am reading the file with ddrescue?
>
> Yes, but make yourself sure first that the interface, filesystem, etc
> is reliable enough for a logfile. Others have discovered the hard way
> how bad is to write the logfile to an unreliable place
>
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue/2009-06/msg00000.html>
Ah, the simple joys of being held up as an example of what not to do ;-).
Yes, having learnt the hard way, I'd suggest that you not write to a
network file system and particularly not an CIFS/SMB filesystem. I have
no experience with using NFS for log files, but based on past experience
I wouldn't go there.
Practically, what this means, is that if you are using ddrescue from a
live CD (as I was) you need a known good drive to store the log file to
in addition to the drive you are copying the restored data to. A USB
stick may be suitable, though I haven't tried.
- Ben
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