per...@pluto.rain.com writes:
> 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.
Excellent suggestion.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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