Data recovery tool that reads - ddrescue

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Data recovery tool that reads data from damaged block devices. More information: Ddrescue - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF).

  • Take an image of a device, creating a log file:

sudo ddrescue {{/dev/sdb}} {{path/to/image.dd}} {{path/to/log.txt}}

  • Clone Disk A to Disk B, creating a log file:

sudo ddrescue --force --no-scrape {{/dev/sdX}} {{/dev/sdY}} {{path/to/log.txt}}