diff --git a/sysutils/ddrescue/Makefile b/sysutils/ddrescue/Makefile
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..cdc9beba7cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/ddrescue/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.1.1.1 2009/11/02 10:01:40 giovanni Exp $
+
+COMMENT =		data recovery tool
+
+DISTNAME =		ddrescue-1.11
+
+CATEGORIES =		sysutils
+
+HOMEPAGE =		http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
+
+# GPLv3
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM =	Yes
+PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP =	Yes
+PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM =Yes
+PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP =	Yes
+
+WANTLIB =		c m stdc++
+
+MASTER_SITES =		${MASTER_SITE_GNU:=ddrescue/}
+
+CONFIGURE_STYLE =	gnu
+ALL_TARGET =		all doc
+INSTALL_TARGET =	install install-man
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/sysutils/ddrescue/distinfo b/sysutils/ddrescue/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dfe698d511c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/ddrescue/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+MD5 (ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz) = cUYEa7GFE1HRM3ux9bTpAw==
+RMD160 (ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz) = VLsNsea5QOciUz9PgEiu57B4UeI=
+SHA1 (ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz) = 0571+rDKCi1jEP3QBYBFn4PJc7w=
+SHA256 (ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz) = 93ciMaiAGk+v0upiu7v6lvnLtb+2PtW6WNVEuxKapiI=
+SIZE (ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz) = 50259
diff --git a/sysutils/ddrescue/patches/patch-configure b/sysutils/ddrescue/patches/patch-configure
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3bce64df979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/ddrescue/patches/patch-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-configure,v 1.1.1.1 2009/11/02 10:01:40 giovanni Exp $
+--- configure.orig	Tue Oct 27 10:45:13 2009
++++ configure	Tue Oct 27 10:45:31 2009
+@@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ datadir='$(prefix)/share'
+ infodir='$(datadir)/info'
+ mandir='$(datadir)/man'
+ sysconfdir='$(prefix)/etc'
+-CC=
+-CXX=
+-CPPFLAGS=
+-CFLAGS='-Wall -W -O2'
+-CXXFLAGS='-Wall -W -O2'
+-LDFLAGS=
+ 
+ # Loop over all args
+ while [ x"$1" != x ] ; do
diff --git a/sysutils/ddrescue/pkg/DESCR b/sysutils/ddrescue/pkg/DESCR
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4ab9d4756be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/ddrescue/pkg/DESCR
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+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.
diff --git a/sysutils/ddrescue/pkg/PLIST b/sysutils/ddrescue/pkg/PLIST
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..44842cbf12b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/ddrescue/pkg/PLIST
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.1.1.1 2009/11/02 10:01:40 giovanni Exp $
+@bin bin/ddrescue
+@info info/ddrescue.info
+@man man/man1/ddrescue.1