advice on data recovery?

Wed Apr 8 23:47:25 UTC 2020

On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 00:49, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> The simplest way to copy a healthy disk is dd:

Stop right there.

dd will fail if there is a problem with the disk. Better to use GNU
ddrescue instead, which will not fail on errors but instead keep going
and recover as much as it can.

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