Backing up a nearly dead HDD

[Jima]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Randy Wyatt wrote:
>> Why not use dd?  if you are replacing a drive with a similar drive, dd
>> is perfect.
>
> dd is not great when used with a failing drive.
> Try ddrescue instead.

  s/dd/dd_/ -- contrary to logic, ddrescue and dd_rescue are, in fact, 
different projects, and it appears we only have dd_rescue in Fedora. 
(Interestingly enough, they both seem to be currently maintained, and 
ddrescue was actually last updated 11 days ago.  Huh.)

      Jima