[ale] Failing external drive. Planning to DD the failing drive to new external drive. Help please

[H P Ladds]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:55 AM, dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> use ddrescue. it can be saved to a file.
>
Am I being paranoid? I want to DD the drive, and then attempt the recovery.
You you suggest skipping the DD and implement ddrecue immediately?

Thanks
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