Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:54:49AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> Situation: My daughter works for a bank and must use Microsoft to work
> at home. Yesterday the system would not boot - no safe mode, no
> nothing, just return to loading bios.
>
> The machine is an HP desktop which came preloaded with Windows XP
> Professional. As instructed we made a recovery disk and some backup
> files. I now find the recovery disk will only wipe the hard drive clean
> and reinstall XP. The backup files are a year out of date.
>
> At the time she bought the machine I installed a second hard drive,
> installed Lenny and configured mbr for dual boot.
>
> Yesterday I edited fstab to include a mount point for the Windows
> primary partition setting the file type to auto and was able to mount
> the partition and read files.
>
> Hoping to save the recent information I tried rsync -vr /c /c_bkup.
> This didn't work, many messages about incorrect nodes.
>
> Is there any chance of recovering usable files before we wipe out her
> hard drive?
>
If you don't have any luck copying files due to filesystem errors, you
should try photorec. (I think it's in the 'testdisk' package). It can
find files that the filesystem doesn't know is there. This includes
some files that have been deleted.
-Rob
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