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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:31:19 +0100
From:      fwd@gothschlampen.com (tk)
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors
Message-ID:  <20100105163119.GA30013@gothschlampen.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B434D52.3030301@kukulies.org>
References:  <4B434D52.3030301@kukulies.org>

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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



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