ddrescue to the rescue
- April 16th, 2013
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ddrescue has completed! I’m about to let this image to a new drive to recover the non-system files which were unreadable. But I do want to compare-and-contrast something. Here’s ddrescue’s completion output. Note in this list:
- 5.49 gigs of errors (recovered, tho’ it took four days of processing
- 21261 read errors.
About to copy 320072 MBytes from /dev/sdb to /home/kahvi/Archives/clearbrook-image.img Starting positions: infile = 0 B, outfile = 0 B Copy block size: 128 sectors Sector size: 512 bytes Max retries: 0 Direct: yes Sparse: no Split: yes Truncate: no Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Initial status (read from logfile) rescued: 314584 MB, errsize: 5488 MB, errors: 21261 Current status rescued: 314584 MB, errsize: 5488 MB, current rate: 0 B/s ipos: 0 B, errors: 21261, average rate: 0 B/s opos: 0 B, time from last successful read: 0 s Finished
Yikes! Clearly the drive is on its last legs! What does Hitachi’s SMART firmware think?
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-39-generic-pae] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
oh.
THANKS GYES.