DARES(1)

💿 DARES(1) 💿

okay bestie, gather round — this is the manual page for dares, section 1 of the manual. Yes it's giving "rescue mission" and yes it ate. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

dares — rescue files from damaged CDs and DVDs 🌈

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dares -i image -s path [-h2i h2i_file] [-a] [-m] [-llogfile]
dares-qt [-i image] [-s path] [-h2i h2i_file] [-a] [-m] [-llogfile]

two flavors, same energy: the command-line one and the Qt one. Pick your fighter. 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the vibe: Dares scans a CD/DVD image or an actual CD/DVD and tries to find files on it. 🦋

The way it does this is genuinely iconic — it does not depend on filesystem information at all. Nope. Instead it uses the Magic library to identify files. And the way that this works out is: Dares can recover files even when the filesystem on the disc (that's ISO-9660 or UDF, iykyk) is damaged and can't be mounted anymore. 😭 Mounting is cancelled, the files are still found. periodt.

Dares can also use H2cdimage files to rescue data from heavily damaged optical discs. That file lives here:

ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2cdimage.zip

go grab it if your disc is really going through it 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -i — the CD/DVD image file, or the device itself. 🎀
• -s — the directory where the rescued files shall be stored. This is their new home. 🏠
• -h2i — optional h2i file for the CD/DVD image. 🌸
• -a — store all found files without any user interaction. no clicking, no confirming, just vibes and results. ✨
• -m — use Mime types instead of a description. 🦋
• -l — logfile (default: dares.log). 📝

👑 AUTHOR 👑

dares was written by Oliver Diedrich <odi@ct.heise.de>. 🫶

This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). sharing is caring fr fr

and that's the whole page bestie — written by Michael Hanke, Oktober 2005, and this is DARES(1) signing off 💅✨💖