Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2011-12-16, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits.
> >>
> >> dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want.
> >
> > Interesting. So even something that just copies blocks of data, like
> > dd, can't be used for that purpose?
>
> Correct.  If you use dd to copy an encrypted disk, the result will be
> missing something like 90% of the data.

dd will abort on the first unreadable sector.

Jörg

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