How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 04:47:52PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> On 01/27/2013 04:35 PM, Suvayu Ali 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?

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