Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue over SSH and gzip

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Matthew Ruffalo wrote:
> If you're imaging a working disk and don't need any of ddrescue's
> recovery/retry capabilities, you could just dump it (maybe with 'pv' for
> a nice progress display) through gzip or xz and then send it over SSH:

I don't know about pv, but recommending a compressor with optional 
integrity checking in a list about data recovery does not seem a good 
idea. Lzip or bzip2 are better options.


Best regards,
Antonio.