Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 02:30:07 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors Message-ID: <20100106023007.b3a19517.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4B434D52.3030301@kukulies.org> References: <4B434D52.3030301@kukulies.org>
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On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:31:46 +0100, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> wrote: > 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 - > image of the disk allowing to access the filesystem > and getting to the important files with a little luck these not being > amongst the corrupted data. > > Anyone knowing what this little tool was named? Something like diskcopy, > devcopy, I forgot. >From my "list" of recovery-related tools: dd_rescue ddrescue fetch -rR <device> recoverdisk I'm quite sure it was one of them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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