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Re: DVD salvage utility

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From JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet>
Subject Re: DVD salvage utility
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Message-ID <slrnn8t4eb.7k8.jedi@nomad.mishnet> (permalink)
Date 2016-01-07 10:26 -0600

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On 2016-01-07, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 09:29:53 -0500, "Jonathan N. Little"
><lws4art@gmail.com> Gave us:
>
>>I have some damaged data dvds where they are partially readable that I 
>>want to savage what still readable. I am looking for a app/script to 
>>copy what is good and skip the damaged automatically. DVDisaster is 
>>great utility to recover minor damaged disks and to create ECC protected 
>>volumes, but tries & retries to recover damage areas such that this one 
>>disk has been running for more that 24-hours. What I am looking for is 
>>something to just quickly copy what is good and skip anything damaged, 
>>because we are talking about thousands of files manually doing is 
>>impractical. Any ideas?
>
>   If the source is available for any such utility, you could find and
> edit the retry count to speed up the reject-and-move-on process.

   Doesn't dd already do this? I know I have pulled data off of damaged
consumer DVDs before and managed to work around the broken bits. I just
don't recall if I used any special tools at the time. Well, I wouldn't
have used anything more specail than dd.

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DVD salvage utility "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 09:29 -0500
  Re: DVD salvage utility DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-07 09:37 -0500
    Re: DVD salvage utility JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-01-07 10:26 -0600
      Re: DVD salvage utility "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 12:29 -0500
  Re: DVD salvage utility Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-07 12:17 -0600
    Re: DVD salvage utility Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-01-07 16:59 -0500
      Re: DVD salvage utility Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-07 16:11 -0600
  Re: DVD salvage utility Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions@gmail.com> - 2016-01-07 21:12 -0500
    Re: DVD salvage utility "E. Robinson" <E.Robinson@merck.com> - 2016-01-09 18:26 +0000
      Re: DVD salvage utility "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-10 10:19 -0500
        Re: DVD salvage utility Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2016-01-10 13:48 -0500

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