Kudos to ddrescue

[Michael Hipp]

Lately I have had numerous opportunities to use 'ddrescue' to take an 
image of a failing hard drive. It works swimmingly; often much better 
than some of my commercial data recovery tools. It even works on dying 
Windows boxes. No small feat.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

As root just do ...

   ddrescue /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
or
   ddrescue /dev/sdb dying.img

... and go have lunch.


Just thought this might be useful to someone.

Michael in Arkansas


P.S. Note that this is different from 'dd_rescue' - no underscore. An 
unfortunate name near collision.