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class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Any preferences on the copy function? I was
originally thinking dd, though now with the bad sectors....?? cp and
rsync have their positives also.
Thanks!
Barry
</pre></blockquote><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">When you have bad sectors to copy, the goto tool is ddrescue, from the
gddrescue package. It is capable of doing a full partition copy, or
with scripting, doing file copies. If you want to do file copies, it
is usually easier to use a nice tool like rsync first, then get the
list of errored files from rsync's log and use ddrescue on those files
individually.
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<p>Thanks Stephen! I'll go with rsync first and probably not copy
any errored shows. Will keep your note for future reference --
obviously great information for all data copy jobs.</p>
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<p>Barry<br>
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