From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 16:31:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E30AB106566B for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:31:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fwd@gothschlampen.com) Received: from vs.gothschlampen.com (vs.gothschlampen.com [85.93.11.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C5F8FC0C for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:31:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vs.gothschlampen.com (Postfix, from userid 667) id 648F21D3631; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:31:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:31:19 +0100 To: Christoph Kukulies Message-ID: <20100105163119.GA30013@gothschlampen.com> References: <4B434D52.3030301@kukulies.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B434D52.3030301@kukulies.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: fwd@gothschlampen.com (tk) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:31:32 -0000 On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi, > It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but ignores > errors, it just skips sectors it couldn't read (after a couple > of retries). The result was, that one had a - albeit - worm-eaten - I think you mean dd_rescue or GNU ddrescue. I personally have used the latter in a similar case. Regards, Thomas