2009/5/26 Owen Townend <owen.town...@gmail.com> > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis <umarz...@gmail.com>: > [snip] > > > > from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need > the > > real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out > though > > I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this > > $ dd_rescue -v /dev/sda1 -l sda.log - | gzip > image.gz > > Not quite, the syntax is: > $ dd_rescue [options] infile outfile > '-' can be used to mean stdin/out > > Your command would be: > $ dd_rescue -v -l sda.log /dev/sda1 - | gzip > image.gz > > Because it becomes a simple bitstream you can handle it any way you like. > Instead of just 'gzip' you could use 'gzip --best' or 'bzip2' or... > whatever you > like to handle the output. > If you didn't have enough space to handle the entire disk in one place you > could use something like 'tar -zL' to handle splitting the archive. >
I wonder because of the syntax placement made $ dd_rescue -v /dev/sda1 -l sda.log - | gzip > image.gz spits "Invalid argument" on the screen and log but image.gz does seem to grow. Any possibility that the command above wouldn't yield a good image? since I've already gone to 34 GB of 600+ GB > > cheers, > Owen. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net
