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

[dev null zero two]

"dd_rescue (or ddrescue)"

dd_rescue and ddrescue are different. dd_rescue is obsolete, don't use it.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Preston <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/12/2015 10:03 AM, H P Ladds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:55 AM, dev null zero two
> > <dev.null.02 at gmail.com <mailto: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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> dd_rescue (or ddrescue) will image the drive and retry bad sectors
> several times to get the data.
>
> first, grab most of the error-free areas in a hurry:
>
> ddrescue -n /dev/source /dev/destination rescued.log
>
> then try to recover as much of the problem areas as possible:
>
> ddrescue -d -r3 -f /dev/source /dev/destination rescued.log
>
> *got a message that says "Output file exists..." so used "-f" after the
> command to force.
>
> Good luck!
> Preston
>
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