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On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:05:26PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
Also I don't see why it would take ages ? It seems to be pretty sequential, it doesn't have any filesystem overhead. And in case you have bad blocks it is able to reduce blocksize to recover as much as possible (which of course is slower during recovery, there's no alternative though), with a filesystem you're pretty much f*cked.
When you are producing lots of copies, you don't want to copy empty space. DD will copy everything.
I'm not sure if you ever tried it, but dd (or ddrescue) is much faster than what you would normally see as throughput at the filesystem level, especialy when you have bad blocks.
True. That is why I said I recomend ghost for when you are producing multiple copies. Not for backup, and definitively not for a recovery procedure.
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