<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Michael Hipp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael@hipp.com">Michael@hipp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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.<br>
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html</a><br>
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As root just do ...<br>
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ddrescue /dev/sdb /dev/sdc<br>
or<br>
ddrescue /dev/sdb dying.img<br>
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... and go have lunch.<br>
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Just thought this might be useful to someone.<br>
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Michael in Arkansas<br>
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P.S. Note that this is different from 'dd_rescue' - no underscore. An unfortunate name near collision.<br>
_______________________________________________<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ken Moffat<br>kmoffat at modizzle dot net<br>