How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

[Paul Smith]

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