{"id":3768,"date":"2013-04-16T09:03:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2013-04-16T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:03:29","slug":"ddrescue-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/ddrescue-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"ddrescue to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ddrescue has completed! I&#8217;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&#8217;s ddrescue&#8217;s completion output. Note in this list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5.49 gigs of errors (recovered, tho&#8217; it took <em>four days of processing<\/em>\n<li>21261 read errors.<\/ul>\n<p><code><\/p>\n<pre>About to copy 320072 MBytes from \/dev\/sdb to \/home\/kahvi\/Archives\/clearbrook-image.img\n    Starting positions: infile = 0 B,  outfile = 0 B\n    Copy block size: 128 sectors\nSector size: 512  bytes\nMax retries: 0\nDirect: yes    Sparse: no    Split: yes    Truncate: no\n\nPress Ctrl-C to interrupt\nInitial status (read from logfile)\nrescued:   314584 MB,  errsize:   5488 MB,  errors:   21261\nCurrent status\nrescued:   314584 MB,  errsize:   5488 MB,  current rate:        0 B\/s\n   ipos:         0 B,   errors:   21261,    average rate:        0 B\/s\n   opos:         0 B,     time from last successful read:       0 s\nFinished<\/pre>\n<p><\/code><br \/>\nYikes! Clearly the drive is on its last legs! What does Hitachi&#8217;s SMART firmware think?<br \/>\n<code><\/p>\n<pre>smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-39-generic-pae] (local build)\nCopyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http:\/\/smartmontools.sourceforge.net\n\n=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===\nSMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED\n<\/pre>\n<p><\/code>oh.<\/p>\n<p>THANKS GYES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ddrescue has completed! I&#8217;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&#8217;s ddrescue&#8217;s completion output. Note in this list: 5.49 gigs of errors (recovered, tho&#8217; it took four days of processing 21261 read errors. About to copy 320072 [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recording-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}