Dazed_75 wrote: > > > On 11/30/06, *Patrick Fleming, EA* > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you are just trying to copy the data from a failing drive to a good > drive, dd_rescue is a pretty decent tool. It's on Knoppix, should be on > other live cds. dd_rescue works even when dd fails. > > > 1) Having never seen this I wondered if it worked differently than using > the "noerror" option to dd which makes it not stop on errors. But then I > presumed dd still writes an output block. Does anyone know if that is > true? This link says no: http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2004/07/save_your_data_from_the_click.html Comments An alternative to dd_rescue dd conv=noerror lbruno | July 17, 2004 03:19 AM An alternative to dd_rescue Sorry, not really. dd with conv=noerror writes nothing in the image in case of a bad block. Your image gets smaller and may be not mountable. dd_rescue writes Zeros in the image. The size of your image becomes the size of the partition. HAND Oliver Sums | July 21, 2004 > 2) I was intriguged so loaded Knoppix 5 to look at it. There was no man > page, but dd_rescue --help gave enough info to intrigue me. So I did a > web search and found http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ which is > the author's site for it. I also found > http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2004/07/save_your_data_from_the_click.html > > which mentions a front end for dd_rescue that sounds intriging. > Unfortunately the link in the article does not work, but > http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/download/index.en.html > does > work. NOTE: I have not tried this and have to run out for some errands > now. Would love to hear from anyone who HAS tried it. I stopped dd and am now using dd_rescue in reverse mode. It's cruising along. I'll let y'all know how it works out. George Toft, CISSP, MSIS 623-203-1760 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss