The "dd" command is a workhorse, sorta like netcat. The answer to "can you use if for copying/backing up XXX" is essentially always "yes." However, it's not convenient for some things. For instance, it copies *files.* Even though the old unix cant is that "everything is a file," it turns out that you sometimes have to play around for file-oriented utilities to play well with directories -- I don't think there's a recursive option for dd.
I don't use dd for backups where I don't want a disk or partition image because I don't want to backup everything, I don't want bit-for-bit backups of individual files (as I remember, dd will back up slack space as well as the file itself), and other tools are more friendly. Rsync is my friend. As with most things in linux, there are 15 ways to do anything, and which is "best" depends on the circumstances, taste, and effort. Sometimes it's easier to use a slightly less efficient tool you know well than a more efficient one you don't.
However, dd gurus often find a way for using it for everything, it seems. Here's a nice review:
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/10/dd-command-examples/
and
http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8016
billo
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Celik wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Bill Oliver <vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The last time this happened to me, I had some luck using sleuthkit:
http://www.sleuthkit.org/
As you noted, installing new things on your computer is destructive to deleted files. It's a good idea, if
you can, to make an image of your disk asap and then work on that image. What I have done is put a live
distro on a flash drive, boot from the live distro, dd the native disk to an external drive, and then run
the recovery utils on the image.
billo
Bill, re-did the work. Because it was fresh in my mind, it didn't take as long.
The tasks you have mentioned (i.e. making an image of disk and dd) are new to me. I'll try to follow the steps with some
dummy files on my laptop. The laptop is for testing new programs if anything goes wrong won't cause much heart-ache.
Please excuse me if this going to be a silly question, so can we use dd for making backups of our files/computer? or can
we make an image of our disk solely for a backup purpose?
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Celik wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are a number of utilities that will attempt this for you.
Google "undelete ext4 linux" assuming your filesystem is ext4.
Gary, thank you for the information. Installed testdisk and exundelete. In the process most
likely substantially
decreased any chance of recovering the files. Tried exundelete but couldn't get it to work. Will
figure out how to use
the programs just in case needed in the future.
Meanwhile, lost only few hours of work.
Anyhow, thanks for the support.
However, as your system is used the now unallocated space is being re-used
reducing any your chances of success. Even installing an uninstall utility
will do this, as would switching to single user or shutting down.
Even if you do nothing, the services in the background will be updating the
filestore,
On Tuesday 26 March 2013 11:23:29 Celik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Had a logic error in my bash script and did "rm -rf *" on my current
> working directory. Any tips for undoing such an error?
>
> Regards,
> C
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Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk
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