Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Kelly Martin <kellymar...@gmail.com> writes: > > I just experienced a hard drive failure on one of my > > FreeBSD 7.2 production servers with no backup! ... > First, try copying the entire disk, *without* mounting it.
Yep. > Use dd(1) to get a copy of the whole disk. I believe that > "conv=noerror" may be necessary. Much better: use sysutils/ddrescue, which was written specifically to deal with this sort of situation. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
