[FnuGk]

What is wrong with just using dd?

[ball_of_lint]

Not everyone is comfortable using the command line or even knows that dd exists.

[sam0x17]

I know it exists but I don't trust it as most tools say "write in ISO mode (recommended) or dd mode (not recommended)"

[mrwm]

To tag on, what's wrong with plain ol' cat or cp?

[ggm]

dd can do seek, skip, re-block. It's unusual to need the features but they exist for good reasons. I used dd to transfer 4.1BSD release tapes to a vax 11/720 via rl02 10meg pack and reconstruct the chunks on the receive side, long ago.

[ok123456]

ddrescue will do this for you automatically to recover from a bad block.