On 12/12/2011 07:41 PM, Rich wrote: <> > no. It's file/device to file/device. Similar to dd with a number of > additional features. -=-
actually, ddrescue is no where near what op is looking for. in fact he has not made any statement about needing to rescue/recover anything, which ddrescue is intended for. from; http://www.gnu.org/s/ddrescue/ddrescue.html it leads off; GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. > You might want to consider an external drive. You can get a 250 Gig USB > for around $50--at least in the US. -=- op might. i like cpio to tape drives for partition cloning and file backup. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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