On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:
> Would love to comment on this. Is it possible you could resend this post in > plain text format? > > Stroller. > > Below is my last post copied and pasted into gmail without the html hot links. I am doing this from within systemrescuecd using firefox and gmail. Don't know how to make it plain ascii otherwise. Hopefully just eliminating the html links will work. Stroller, is this what you are referring to? Thanks, -- Valmor > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Stroller wrote: > > [snip] > > >> in the GNU manual page [1]. I believe that GNU ddrescue is the better >> version - it was inspired by garloff's original work, and makes >> improvements, but it operates differently. >> > > Comment. Another reason I moved away from dd (apart from the slow running > time) to ddrescue was because of this note related to LVM. > > h<http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html> > http://www.interference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html > "Steve Holmes reports that dd with conv=sync,noerror doesn't correctly > image disks with LVM2 Logical Volumes. I haven't investigated this. He also > points out GNU ddrescue ( not the same as dd_rescue mentioned above) which > looks useful. According to Steve, ddrescue works finewith LVM2, and some > people seem to suggest it's generally superior to dd_rescue." > > The partition I would like to get data from is under LVM (previous post). > > Thanks, > > -- > Valmor > >
