Backing up a nearly dead HDD

Randy Wyatt rwwyatt01 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 15:34:20 UTC 2007


Have you used smartmon tools ?  These actually give me the best results for
determining the number of errors encountered by a drive.

>
>  >
>  > Is there a way I can copy everything from one drive to another and keep
> the
>  > permissions from a dodgy drive to a working one? cp -ar seems an
> option, but
>  > it takes a while!
>
> The traditional fast way is "dump -f - | restore -f -" [*] but I'm not
> sure dump handles extended attributes correctly.
>
> Andrew.



Why not use dd?  if you are replacing a drive with a similar drive, dd is
perfect.

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> [*] The drive should NOT be mounted R/W.
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