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

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:15:56 -0600
Preston <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

 
> ddrescue -n /dev/source /dev/destination rescued.log

I'd put rescued.log on a disk other than the source, which is presumed
iffy. I like thumb drives for this purpose.

SteveT

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