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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: > That would probably be wise, but not easy. The best way is to boot from > a standalone Linux system, and copy the partitions that way, but you > still run the risk of a damaged backup if a read fails as it might > terminate the backup, but the advice is certainly good advice. > > Additionally, there is a Linux badblocks(8) command whose job it is is > to remap badblocks. I was in a hurry earlier and forgot about it. Another good tool to skip over read errors is dd_rescue or ddrescue -- I can never remember the difference between the two different releases...heh -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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