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

[Jim Kinney]

Ddrescue runs dd in a rescue mode. It scavenges every block off the drive
it can. Even if it's been marked as unusable by the drive. It's good to use
if you have missing files on a failed drive.
On Nov 12, 2015 11:07 AM, "H P Ladds" <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:55 AM, dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> use ddrescue. it can be saved to a file.
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> 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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