Source: ddrescue Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Kali Developers Uploaders: Sophie Brun Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libattr1-dev, libacl1-dev, liblzo2-dev, libssl-dev Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Homepage: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ Vcs-Git: https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/ddrescue.git Vcs-Browser: https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/ddrescue Package: ddrescue Architecture: amd64 arm64 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: data recovery and protection tool When your disk has crashed and you try to copy it over to another one, standard Unix tools like cp, cat, and dd will abort on every I/O error, dd_rescue does not. It optimizes copying by using large blocks as long as no errors occur and falls back to smaller blocks. It supports reverse direction copying (to approach a bad spot from the top), sparse copying, preallocating space, splice zerocopy, and bypassing the kernel pagecache with O_DIRECT. dd_rescue provides safe deletion of data by overwriting files (or better partitions/disks) multiple times with fast random numbers. With the ddr_hash plugin, it supports calculating a hash value (such as a sha256sum) or an HMAC during copying.