Bash and mass backup of floppy disks
While dealing with cleaning out the family house, I have been tasked to backup all the pictures from floppy disks (3 1/2") and Compact Discs(CDs). Thankfully I still had both a CD reader and a 3 1/2" Floppy disk drive to read them. As any sort of media goes bad over time, I first had to copy the contents onto my local drive before extracting and inspecting the contents of each. This brings me to a problem with the 3 1/2" Floppy disks, as most of them had read errors on them. This caused headaches when attempting to using a the standard COPY command. This is where I turned to my trusty friend ddrescue*. This would allow me to copy the data into an IMG format, while retrying to all errors that come up while reading from the disk. This brings me to attempting to automate the process. A quick bash script allowed inputting of the title of the disk, along with looping indefinitely. This is a pretty simple script that requires 'sudo' access to ru...