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Re: I really feel that these sort of disks are starting to be seriously limited.. (Score: 1)

by unitron@pipedot.org on 2014-02-22 07:02 (#4J)

"Okay then, for when you want a straight binary copy of a whole drive what would you use instead of dd?"

That's a somewhat different goal from the average "backup", but

dd_rescue

or

ddrescue

do what

dd

does, but with greater flexibility.

I've used both in attempts to rescue TiVo drives (well, to rescue the contents before the drive finished dying, actually), with probably as much success as was going to be possible under the circumstances.