On Sat, Jan 9, 2021, 10:11 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 11:55 AM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 1. If you don't have a backup of important data, you should first use
> > 'btrfs restore' as I've described in previous emails. The fsck should
> > fix the problem, but there is a chance it makes things worse. No fsck
> > is guaranteed safe, because it's making changes to the file system.
> >
>
> Let me know if it makes more sense to use ddrescue instead of `btrfs
> restore`.
>

It's up to you. Both methods make a copy. Thats whats important.

ddrescue will take longer and needs more space than just pulling out files
with btrfs restore. But if you're already familiar with ddrescue, that's an
advantage.

--
Chris Murphy

>
>
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