ddrescue interrupt and resume

I am trying to rescue the data froma dying HDD. How do I interrupt and then resume ddrescue as its a slow process given the damaged drive?

 

Interrupt: CTRL+C.
Resume: re-run your initial ddrescue command.

 

Thanks, so I dont have to tell ddrescue where to resume from on the HDD?

 

Errhh... You did run it with the logfile option, right ?

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IMPORTANT! Always use a logfile unless you know you won't need it.
Without a logfile, ddrescue can't resume a rescue, only reinitiate it.

If you didn't, there's a --generate-logfile option that you can use to generate a logfile from a recovered image. As per info ddrescue:

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However, if the destination of the copy was a drive or a partition, (or an existing regular file and truncation was not requested), most probably you will need to restart ddrescue from the very beginning. (This time with a logfile, of course).

I never used the --generate-logfile option so it might or might not work for you. Maybe someone else can chime in with more details...

 

Thanks, I was not aware of the logfile option, and it turns out I was looking at tah man page of dd_rescue and that ddrescue is another program