Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:08 +0100, ludovico van wrote:
>>> so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe
>>> retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level,
>>> so i can copy only selected files?
>>
>> I think the problem is next step -- if such program does exist, and you
>> salvaged several hundred/thousand files, but about half are broken.
>> What would you do next?
>
> well, i start enjoying the good half of my files... ;-)
Ok, then check out dar_cp from the dar package.
dar_cp is similar to the standard 'cp' command, except it
does not stop copying when an I/O error is met. Instead,
it skips a bit further and continues to copy the rest of
the file, as much as possible.
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