[ale] OT: Migrating off dying HDD

[Mills.J at ems-t.com (Mills, John M.)]

Bob -

That sounds like a temper-saving option, to say the least! 'dd' doesn't
need any setup, either: perfect for a _Truly_Lazy_Engineer_(TM)

 - John

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Bob
To: ale at ale.org
Toxen
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 3:37 PM
...

If you still cannot get more than a few minutes operations, either
rsync (like someone else suggested) or use the dd program to copy until
it dies, then cool and re-invoke dd with the skil and seek options
to pick up after the last good block already copied.