Quoting Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 18 February 2006 22:30, Wesley Parish wrote: > > Thanks. But Helix is an attack forensic tool, and the other article > is > > about the same sort of forensics tools. I'm wondering about rescue > > liveCDs for systems needing electronic ER > > Then there is also the BG-Rescue system. > http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ > I do not know if the dd utility has the rescue features or not. > > Still from the look of the help screen dd_rescue looks to me as if it's > > almost certainly the best one. It's on the Knoppix CD
Yep. I ran it briefly yesterday - but not on the postulated defunct hd. I was getting a total blank on seeing /dev/hda last night. > > > BTW, if anybody's interested, I tried mdir and mcopy from my Knoppix > > session to a FAT-formatted floppy, and got an "input/output error". > I'm > > starting to worry it's actually a bus problem, and that the MB's > > destined for the great bit-bucket in the sky sooner rather than later. > > > (shrugs) > > > > Oh well, I can always email the text I was working on, to myself, and > > let the email system save it for me. Won't be the first time! Just > > means there's a lot of email to myself I'll have to junk when I > finally > > get my system up and running again. ;) > I'm sure Craig would give you a login on Horse. shell.clug.org.nz so you > > can save your files off site. > > Note also that I have your vheratsho story safely squirrelled away. Thanks. I've started rewriting a story that had its genesis in a weird dream I had in 1987, which I remembered on waking, which I tried to turn into a story way back then. Twenty years between start and finish? (shrugs) It happens. So does (censored) .... ;) Wesley Parish > > -- > CS > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
