On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 07:34 -0800, Randy Wyatt wrote: > > > > Is there a way I can copy everything from one drive to > another and keep the > > permissions from a dodgy drive to a working one? cp -ar > seems an option, but > > it takes a while! > > > The traditional fast way is "dump -f - | restore -f -" [*] but > I'm not > sure dump handles extended attributes correctly. > > Andrew. > > > Why not use dd? if you are replacing a drive with a similar drive, dd > is perfect. I'd suggest dd_rescue. When it hits a bad sector, it lowers its block size and retries, thus (hopefully) retrieving more data. Jonathan
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