2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis <umarz...@gmail.com>: > There's a hard disk with bad sectors that I want to make a back up with > ddrescue but the thing is, it is 1 TB and the backup location is also 1 TB > and that is the only one I could afford right now. How do I compress it on > the fly while making an image out of it?
Try, for example $ dd_rescue /dev/sda1 - | gzip > image.gz Where /dev/sda1 is your dying disk and image.gz is the compressed output. Be aware that having stdout as the destination for dd_rescue means it is unable to handle writing sparse files properly (if that is required). cheers, Owen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
