From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com (dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com [68.99.120.47]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75AD1EF6D5 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 04:02:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dukecmimpo01.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.134]) by dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.8.01.05.06 201-2260-151-112-20120208) with ESMTP id <20130528080249.UJBH932.dukecmmtar04.coxmail.com@dukecmimpo01.coxmail.com> for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 04:02:49 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.105] ([70.166.17.50]) by dukecmimpo01.coxmail.com with bizsmtp id hL2o1l00N14oyBJ01L2pko; Tue, 28 May 2013 04:02:49 -0400 Message-ID: <51A464A9.30208@baechler.net> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 01:02:49 -0700 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Accessible image backup and restore program? References: <51A242CF.80406@insightbb.com> <20130526200307.GA26205@gregn.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 08:02:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Yes, I have. My drive was starting to fail. I was able to recover everything just fine. I think it was pretty slow as I recall, but XFS was able to eventually read the backup image after running xfs_repair on it. Since it works like dd, you can rescue a drive to a raw disk image if you want. I highly recommend it. Unlike the normal dd, it gives progress reports so you can see how many bad sectors it found and how long it will take. On 5/26/2013 2:16 PM, Adam Myrow wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2013, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >> I can tell you from personal experience that ntfsclone works nicely >> if you're trying to recover data from a damaged drive. On the other >> hand, partimage bombs as soon as it encounters the first i/o error >> while reading the partition in question. > > Have you tried Gnu Ddrescue? I have a 1TB USB drive that is dying, and > I am trying Ddrescue on it, copying the data to a brand new drive of > the same size. We'll see how it goes, but I'm curious if you have had > any experience using this tool on failing drives. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRpGSoAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0y0jwP/1FCYiSw02XdCClyMnegUpNi eIhlrVKmZfXfBF9ga0fR9VpLwlV8+RZjDmP6BIwRVnnfEjNJeHTdOyD6aJaROtx2 VX+FGNGtl+kpgc50JjFdMb93ZAE0Bad8tuoINW9UKIlJssAMKBMrXjS0zo+r+TN2 rVJZSGsRArqjF6kVkF+c1NW9/IcVPp/sOnPBJVU63Q0TWtic9pGDLeSaYLO7Gfso LH8Ca689mpFgGR2zncmy3U1xN6gZG2fMyGuGwKf+srz/NeE3jlgKxrgFsM26R+Dc HbOQExESo649AFvKkCqJ11P6tcltJqIhNrT6eSqyFyfXKBoDL4+LcBFU985FmC7N DE25EfGXINfvPpKfwwXl+7nXGjlIwT8T2t3DNje+WvjcC6DG/EpaoqD+uuyBxIyo auuiKVaHmDIHJTp+25Cf1+sjRKVkMCW+iihKZt9U77McqNvpicx5hSbzBEjpHOlJ yi19Tia+ebCL08DgfaWrbJXlf8MO6aYH3ha2cRNIZd6h3zv1yjbg22cXOvnYiU/F qchECSJ46b5bKDOUINOo3NAZtzcnBteeId4USeFyvs9XRPTNGbU2ZJmDuYu6eKXj 05N8Lr+gAoz2II3zkNA/393ifEGqwa6X6TfpsRXgg7Y9RCMcrgLUe+tpb0fLZwL7 bJ40gc1v8fmbVspWQlHe =0sfE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----