On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Chris Dennis <cgden...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> Hello rsync people > > Today I was recovering data from a beginning-to-fail external USB hard > disk. > > I started with my usual 'rsync -av --ignore-errors <source> <dest>', and > that was fine until it got to the first I/O errors. It paused but > continued after the first couple of errors, but then the disk started > buzzing and rsync gave error messages for every file (I'm afraid I didn't > note the exact text of the messages). After that, every run of rsync > (trying to --exclude the faulty files and folders) started the disk buzzing > again, and rsync couldn't copy > anything.<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> I don't know why rsync's normal operations are triggering bad disk behavior in your case, but here's a program that might help you get your data: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/try-copying-up-to-n-times.html I used it to recover data from a flaky Lustre filesystem once.
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