[GRLUG] ddrescue

[L. V. Lammert]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Mike Williams wrote:

> Hmmm. Sparse file? Which is something I barely understand but sounds
> right. Or image it into a file on a compressed filesystem. Would btrfs
> on-the-fly compression solve the problem?
>
Unknown, .. but rsync is happily chunkiing away - 32% copied since last
night. My original concern about rsync was what would happen when it
encountered an error in the file system itself (as fsck hung), but either
it is ignoring them or does not consider then 'fatal'.

	Thanks!

	Lee