On 9/22/19 10:07 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 9/22/19 6:06 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 9/22/19 5:33 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> The same dd restored perfects to another stick.
>> I do believe want went wrong as the partition
>> structures not being written in the right places.
>> So gzip is out. Rats!
>
> Can you provide the exact commands you used?
# dd status=progress bs=4096 if=/dev/sdx of=DeadStick.FC30_$(date
+%Y-%m-%d).dd.gz
# gunzip --to-stdout backup.date.dd.gz | dd status=progress bs=4096
of=/dev/sdx
Those can't be the actual commands you used because there is no
compression involved in the first command, so the second one would give
you an error.