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Re: Needed - a byte perfect image of an entire partition



On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Jeroen Mathon wrote:
> `dd bs=64k if=/dev/sda of=./image.img conv=noerror,sync status=progress`
> 
> You can thank me later.

You might also find ddrescue useful, as it is significantly faster than
dd and can retry on errors.

For example:

ddrescue --retry-passes=10 --reverse /dev/sda ./image.img ./image.map


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