Failsafe dd

0. Contents

This is the documentation of faildd-1.0.3.
   1. Purpose
      1.1. What is dd?
    2. Copying
   3. Requirements
   4. Downloading

1. Purpose

Imitate the behavior of the unix tool dd, but in a way that is suitable for copying the contents of a broken hard disk to another.
That is, ignore read errors, don't desync in stream positions and aim to minimal data loss. 



1.1. What is dd?


This is a progrma to copy a file or data stream
to another file or data stream.



2. Copying


faildd has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a.
Bisqwit,

and is distributed under the terms of the
General Public License (GPL).


3. Requirements


A C++ compiler is required. The program also uses the
_llseek() syscall available only in Linux. You probably
have to customize the program if you want to use it in
something else than Linux.


4. Downloading

   The official home page of faildd
   is at http://oktober.stc.cx/source/faildd.html.

   Check there for new versions.

 
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