ddrescue

Data recovery tool that reads data from damaged block devices. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/.

• Take an image of a device, creating a log file:

sudo ddrescue /dev/sdb path/to/image.dd path/to/log.txt

• Clone Disk A to Disk B, creating a log file:

sudo ddrescue --force --no-scrape /dev/sdX /dev/sdY path/to/log.txt