How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 01/27/2013 04:56 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Well, if your hard disk is failing whatever backup you do might just be
>>>> useless.  After all backups are done *before* things fail :-p.
>>>>
>>>> I would suggest you try data recovery.  For hints you can look here:
>>>>
>>>> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/377478/match=suvayu+ddrescue>
>>>>
>>>> GL,
>>>>
>>> Just curious: wouldn't transferring / copying the important directories
>> If your source is corrupted, how can you reasonably expect the copied
>> data is fine?
> Actually, I am not so sure that my hard disk is corrupted. I have just
> filed the following bug report:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904853
>
> Paul
Hence my question....LoL!


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