Re: Best tools for hard drive recovery

2015-01-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU 
On Vi, 02 ian 15, 16:24:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
 In the midst of other activities around my hard drives, I realized one of
 my old backup drives has suffered some damage.  Not all of the files are
 readable.
 
 I have more recent backups, so there's nothing catasrophic here, but before
 I jettison this drive I'd like to get off of it what i can.  I have another
 of the same size that's empty, and I could just copy the whole drive to it,
 but I need a tool that's robust in the presence of errors.

ddrescue (package gddrescue).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Re: Best tools for hard drive recovery

2015-01-03 Thread Gerard ROBIN 
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:24:56PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 16:24:56 -0800
 From: Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com
 To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Best tools for hard drive recovery

 of the same size that's empty, and I could just copy the whole drive to it,
 but I need a tool that's robust in the presence of errors.

Perhaps testdisk package

hth.
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Best tools for hard drive recovery

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman 
In the midst of other activities around my hard drives, I realized one of
my old backup drives has suffered some damage.  Not all of the files are
readable.

I have more recent backups, so there's nothing catasrophic here, but before
I jettison this drive I'd like to get off of it what i can.  I have another
of the same size that's empty, and I could just copy the whole drive to it,
but I need a tool that's robust in the presence of errors.

I've never had to do this before.  Any suggestions?

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