-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Yes, I have. My drive was starting to fail. I was able to recover everything just fine. I think it was pretty slow as I recall, but XFS was able to eventually read the backup image after running xfs_repair on it. Since it works like dd, you can rescue a drive to a raw disk image if you want. I highly recommend it. Unlike the normal dd, it gives progress reports so you can see how many bad sectors it found and how long it will take. On 5/26/2013 2:16 PM, Adam Myrow wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2013, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >> I can tell you from personal experience that ntfsclone works nicely >> if you're trying to recover data from a damaged drive. On the other >> hand, partimage bombs as soon as it encounters the first i/o error >> while reading the partition in question. > > Have you tried Gnu Ddrescue? I have a 1TB USB drive that is dying, and > I am trying Ddrescue on it, copying the data to a brand new drive of > the same size. We'll see how it goes, but I'm curious if you have had > any experience using this tool on failing drives. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRpGSoAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0y0jwP/1FCYiSw02XdCClyMnegUpNi eIhlrVKmZfXfBF9ga0fR9VpLwlV8+RZjDmP6BIwRVnnfEjNJeHTdOyD6aJaROtx2 VX+FGNGtl+kpgc50JjFdMb93ZAE0Bad8tuoINW9UKIlJssAMKBMrXjS0zo+r+TN2 rVJZSGsRArqjF6kVkF+c1NW9/IcVPp/sOnPBJVU63Q0TWtic9pGDLeSaYLO7Gfso LH8Ca689mpFgGR2zncmy3U1xN6gZG2fMyGuGwKf+srz/NeE3jlgKxrgFsM26R+Dc HbOQExESo649AFvKkCqJ11P6tcltJqIhNrT6eSqyFyfXKBoDL4+LcBFU985FmC7N DE25EfGXINfvPpKfwwXl+7nXGjlIwT8T2t3DNje+WvjcC6DG/EpaoqD+uuyBxIyo auuiKVaHmDIHJTp+25Cf1+sjRKVkMCW+iihKZt9U77McqNvpicx5hSbzBEjpHOlJ yi19Tia+ebCL08DgfaWrbJXlf8MO6aYH3ha2cRNIZd6h3zv1yjbg22cXOvnYiU/F qchECSJ46b5bKDOUINOo3NAZtzcnBteeId4USeFyvs9XRPTNGbU2ZJmDuYu6eKXj 05N8Lr+gAoz2II3zkNA/393ifEGqwa6X6TfpsRXgg7Y9RCMcrgLUe+tpb0fLZwL7 bJ40gc1v8fmbVspWQlHe =0sfE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
