[plug] "dd" question - dd is bad.

[Craig Ringer]

 > It buggers up tab-completion and wildcards. Join the dd boycot.
It does? Bash, at least as default configure on Debian 3.0, completes 
filenames fine even as part of a command like that.

> Much safer to put the HDD in another PC and use rsync.

If you can't, at least set the drive to go into power saving mode after 
its finished its job for the day, so if there's a power surge that lets 
the magic smoke out of your PC there's less chance of nastiness with 
disk heads. Of course, that won't protect your disk's PCB...

> I havnt tried it, but rsync might be a lot faster locally too. Anyone?

Doubt it - CPU time would be prohibitive I expect. Then again, I'm often 
wrong about these things.

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