[plug] cprescue?

[Bill Kenworthy]

dd conv=noerror if=FileA of=FileB

dd is useful for all sorts of things ...

`man dd`

?
BillK



On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:28 +0800, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > Physically move the disk to another machine.
> 
> I've got it attached via a usb now.
> 
> > or
> >
> > Boot from a live cd/usb key with networking and use dd over ssh to
> > another machine?
> >
> > If ddrescue is really needed, do the above but mount a remote disk into
> > the file tree and treat it as local. (ddrescue soesnt seem to do
> > networks from its gnu web page), but you might be able to get fancy with
> > netcat etc.
> 
> Mounting the filesystem isn't the issue. Copying the data from it is
> problematic as I have a tonne of bad sectors.
> 
> [103515.217173] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : No Sense [current]
> [103515.217179] Info fld=0x0
> [103515.217181] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
> 
> ddrescue was good for this as it moved reasonably quickly to the next
> block, cp in the other hand hangs forever (figuratively speaking of
> course)
> 
> The drive is also 1TB, full of music, video and some large audio
> chunks. I just dont have that sort of room on any network drive. Of
> the data on there I only need a 1Gb or 2
> 
> Carl G
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