Re: Duplicating my hard drive?

[Yury Umanets]

Andreas Steffen wrote:

> Yury Umanets wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Why you don't want to use dd?
>
> My worry with dd is that it 


> a) takes really long (the hard drive I was taking about is about 4% 
> full, so a smarter tool might be better), 


> b) I am not familiar with exactly how dd affects block devices and 


> c) if there's a small error among the billions of bytes, it might all 
> go to hell. Of course, a) is survivable, b) could be cured (RTFM, ne?) 
> and c) is a question of experience... which is why I'm posting here. 

If you worry about bad blocks, than dd_rescue is better tool for making 
backup/clone, etc.

Okay, what about just copy all files and directories by cp command? :)

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