Kudos to ddrescue

[Ken Moffat]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> 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.
> _______________________________________________
>
>
This sounds like an excellent tool. There appears to be a "gddrescue" also,
apparently the graphic version. I'll have a look at them. Thanks.



-- 
Ken Moffat
kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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