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-rw-r--r--pkgs/tools/system/safecopy/default.nix30
-rw-r--r--pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix2
2 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/safecopy/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/safecopy/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..049503b1531b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/safecopy/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "safecopy-1.7";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/projects/safecopy/safecopy/${name}/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1zf4kk9r8za9pn4hzy1y3j02vrhl1rxfk5adyfq0w0k48xfyvys2";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "data recovery tool for damaged hardware";
+
+    longDescription =
+      '' Safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a
+         problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, hard disk partitions, CDs,
+         tape devices, etc, where other tools like dd would fail due to I/O errors.
+
+         Safecopy includes a low level IO layer to read CDROM disks in raw mode, and issue device
+         resets and other helpful low level operations on a number of other device classes.
+       '';
+
+    homepage = http://safecopy.sourceforge.net;
+
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.bluescreen303 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 87aa10b90fb4..5ee4f2044934 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1448,6 +1448,8 @@ let
 
   sablotron = callPackage ../tools/text/xml/sablotron { };
 
+  safecopy = callPackage ../tools/system/safecopy { };
+
   salut_a_toi = callPackage ../applications/networking/instant-messengers/salut-a-toi {};
 
   screen = callPackage ../tools/misc/screen { };