DVDisaster - Replacement for ddrescue?

Posted by JD 03/17/2015 at 23:00

DVDisaster – Replacement for ddrescue for optical media?

The manpage says:

DVDISASTER – data loss/scratch/aging protection for CD/DVD media

I’ve used it here to recover a few old DVDs that couldn’t be read by ddrescue at all. It failed with a few other DVDs too, so it isn’t a magic bullet.

It was already in the Ubuntu repos.

I think we should go fishing tomorrow.