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+;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
+;;; Copyright © 2012 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
+;;;
+;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+;;; your option) any later version.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;
+;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;; along with GNU Guix. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(define-module (gnu packages ddrescue)
+ #:use-module (guix licenses)
+ #:use-module (guix packages)
+ #:use-module (guix download)
+ #:use-module (guix build-system gnu))
+
+(define-public ddrescue
+ (package
+ (name "ddrescue")
+ (version "1.16")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/ddrescue/ddrescue-"
+ version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1rixya7p8c4jrn4p0flf6h5dqwybrilf3hrj4r7x41h3zgjz5cvn"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (home-page
+ "http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html")
+ (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
+rescue data in case of read errors.
+
+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
+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.")
+ (license gpl3+)))