[Cialug] Dying commputer question

[kristau]

> > Not ddrescue?
> >
>
>  If you've got it installed, ddresuce would be fine, and has appropriate
> default settings for this task. But dd is installed everywhere and with the
> 'conv=noerror' setting should work just a well.
>
>         Zach

I concur with Zach.  I've never used ddrescue, so I mentioned the tool
with which I'm most familiar.  If you have a preferred utility that
can do the same, by all means use it.  Since dd is in just about every
distro, though, it pays to become familiar with it.

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