On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hello, > > I am trying to recover data from a failed drive. An initial attempt with dd > took over 12 hours and it was not even at half of the 80GB damaged drive; so > I quit. Info on the web pointed me to ddrescue > > ddrescue -n /dev/sda /dev/sdc rescued.log > > which has taken over 6 hours so far > > Press Ctrl-C to interrupt > Initial status (read from logfile) > rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0 > Current status > rescued: 58656 MB, errsize: 4408 kB, current rate: 4096 B/s > ipos: 58660 MB, errors: 32, average rate: 2958 kB/s > opos: 58660 MB, time from last successful read: 0 s > Copying non-tried blocks... > > The "current rate" varies and sometimes is down to a few B/s! > Is this normal? The drive copied to is a USB external drive. > > Thanks for inputs. > > -- > Valmor > > It's about 10 hours now since it started and here it is Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Initial status (read from logfile) rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0 Current status rescued: 58763 MB, errsize: 22918 kB, current rate: 1376 kB/s ipos: 58786 MB, errors: 66, average rate: 1751 kB/s opos: 58786 MB, time from last successful read: 0 s Copying non-tried blocks... Sometimes the "current rate" reads 0 B/s for a long time... and "time from last successful read" can be 8m. Would any one know whether this is normal? Thanks, -- Valmor
