ddrescue
Data recovery tool that reads data from damaged block devices. tldr-pages
On Linux
Linux
Take an image of a device
sudo ddrescue /dev/sdX path/to/image.imgIdentifyTake an image of a device, creating a log file
sudo ddrescue /dev/sdX path/to/image.img path/to/log.txtIdentifyClone Disk A to Disk B, creating a log file
sudo ddrescue --force --no-scrape /dev/sdX /dev/sdY path/to/log.txtIdentify