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

[Preston]

I mainly use ddrescue, but use dd_rescue when I'm ssh'ing an image to
our NAS. I haven't checked lately, but used to ddrescue couldn't do that.

Preston

On 11/12/2015 11:57 AM, dev null zero two wrote:
> Oh, guess they resumed development awhile back. I'll give it a whirl
> again but most of the additions seem superfluous tho imo (encryption,
> compression) . I can't even tell if they added the option of a log file.
> that's invaluable in ddrescue as drives sometimes require power cycling
> to continue recovery.
> 
> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
> 
> On Nov 12, 2015 12:37 PM, "Preston" <preston.lists at gmail.com
> <mailto:preston.lists at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/12/2015 10:19 AM, dev null zero two wrote:
>     > "dd_rescue (or ddrescue)"
>     >
>     > dd_rescue and ddrescue are different. dd_rescue is obsolete, don't
>     use it.
>     >
>     <snipped>
> 
>     dd_rescue is obsolete? they just released version 1.99 on 2015-09-09.
> 
>     Preston


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