I want to backup a drive that is failing. Would it be in my best interest to back it up using cp or dd and why?
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if you can, cp as it doesn’t care about drive/block/partition sizes. If
nothing else works ‘dd’ will sometimes even work when the drive will not
otherwise let you copy stuff off, but either way this all avoids the point
that a backup should happen before things go wrong.
Good luck.
big g 1 wrote:
> I want to backup a drive that is failing. Would it be in my best
> interest to back it up using cp or dd and why?
>
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