mips
January 12th, 2011, 11:08 AM
GNU ddrescue (http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html) is a very useful data recovery tool.
A lot of people however have never used linux & the cli and it could be daunting to them and also dangerous if they mix up drives.
Surely someone could create a GUI frontend for it that has all the options available to the utility. So first it would have an option to select the relevant drives that also displays detailed info about the drive, make, model, serial#, firmware etc which will lead to positive id. Have to small information areas at the top left & right with this info displayed all the time. Left side source drive, right side destination drive (and image location if using a image file instead)
Below the information windows you have tick options and drop down menus for the various ddrescue options/parameters.
Below this you would have a status window (the entire width) that provides the normal output ddrscue does while recovering.
The default documentation should also be available vie the main window menu.
What do you guys think?
I'm no programmer so if someone could do this it would be nice.
I'm happy & proficient using the cli but I'm thinking of those that are not.
This could possibly be further extended to include a graphical GUI for Testdisk or as a separate projectetc.
A lot of people however have never used linux & the cli and it could be daunting to them and also dangerous if they mix up drives.
Surely someone could create a GUI frontend for it that has all the options available to the utility. So first it would have an option to select the relevant drives that also displays detailed info about the drive, make, model, serial#, firmware etc which will lead to positive id. Have to small information areas at the top left & right with this info displayed all the time. Left side source drive, right side destination drive (and image location if using a image file instead)
Below the information windows you have tick options and drop down menus for the various ddrescue options/parameters.
Below this you would have a status window (the entire width) that provides the normal output ddrscue does while recovering.
The default documentation should also be available vie the main window menu.
What do you guys think?
I'm no programmer so if someone could do this it would be nice.
I'm happy & proficient using the cli but I'm thinking of those that are not.
This could possibly be further extended to include a graphical GUI for Testdisk or as a separate projectetc.