Hi, It would be great if GNU ddrescue could provide the possibility of writing to stdout. This makes it possible to backup a hard disk drive to a compressed image, like this:
ddrescue /dev/sda - | gzip -9 > /mnt/usb-hdd/backup.img.gz
Also, it enables saving backups to a different computer via SSH etc.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Michael
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