I've been trying to migrate for 2 weeks. I can wait another 2 ... maybe 3 weeks. Just to be clear, I'm using dd_rescue, not ddrescue (This is the GNU one). I read the log option but forgot to use it... now I've wasted over 20 hours... ugh ... /smacks self That would be a very useful program for cases like this! On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Matthias Urlichs <matthias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:40:44 +0300, Majed B. wrote: > >> Would anyone suggest a better solution? > > You should tell ddrescue to log which sectors it failed to copy. You can > then recover the missing data by reading the stuff at that offset from > the other disks, and XORing the bytes. > > I plan to write a program which does that (and which also understands > RAID1 and RAID6). How long can you survive without your data? > > -- > Matthias Urlichs > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Majed B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
