How To Install gddrescue on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gddrescue on Debian 12.
What is gddrescue
gddrescue is:
The gddrescue tool copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors.
gddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps.
The basic operation of gddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don’t have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc. If you use the logfile feature of gddrescue, the data is rescued very efficiently (only the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt the rescue at any time and resume it later at the same point.
Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged copies of a file, cdrom, etc, and run gddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with the same output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free file. This is so because the probability of having damaged areas at the same places on different input files is very low. Using the logfile, only the needed blocks are read from the second and successive copies.
The logfile is periodically saved to disc. So in case of a crash you can resume the rescue with little recopying. Also, the same logfile can be used for multiple commands that copy different areas of the file, and for multiple recovery attempts over different subsets.
gddrescue aligns its I/O buffer to the sector size so that it can be used to read from raw devices. For efficiency reasons, also aligns it to the memory page size if page size is a multiple of sector size.
Please note that this is the GNU ddrescue version providing the ddrescue executable. The package is named gddrescue because the ddrescue version of Kurt Garloff used to have the ddrescue package name already.
There are three methods to install gddrescue on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gddrescue Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gddrescue using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gddrescue
Install gddrescue Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gddrescue using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gddrescue
Install gddrescue Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gddrescue using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gddrescue
How To Uninstall gddrescue on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gddrescue package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gddrescue
Uninstall gddrescue And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gddrescue and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gddrescue
Remove gddrescue Configurations and Data
To remove gddrescue configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gddrescue
Remove gddrescue configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gddrescue configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gddrescue
Dependencies
gddrescue have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gddrescue package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.