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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm | 21 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm b/gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm index e9c7856af3..0d5533d423 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU -;;; Copyright © 2012 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> +;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -37,24 +37,21 @@ (build-system gnu-build-system) (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html") - (synopsis "GNU ddrescue, a data recovery tool") + (synopsis "GNU Ddrescue, a data recovery tool") (description - "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one -file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to + "GNU Ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one +file or block device (e.g., hard disk, CD-ROM) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. -The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you don't +The basic operation of Ddrescue 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 ddrescue, the data is rescued very -efficiently (only the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt +If you use the logfile feature of Ddrescue, 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 ddrescue 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.") +a file and run Ddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with the same +output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free file.") (license gpl3+))) |