Journal temojen's Journal: ntfsclone refuses to clone corrupted disk?!?! 6
It has an option for dealing with bad sectors... but refuses to run if there's corruption... which is caused by bad sectors...
me@VBox-Kubuntu:~/linux-ntfs-2.0.0/ntfsprogs$ diff ntfsclone.c~ ntfsclone.c
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< if (opt.ignore_fs_check && !opt.metadata)
< err_exit("Filesystem check can be ignored only for metadata "
< "cloning!\n");
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>
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Whoops (Score:2)
Why ntfsclone? (Score:2)
Why ntfsclone in this instance? Wouldn't one of the ddrescue variants be more appropriate? (ddrescue, gddrescue, dd_rescue...Hell, I don't know. I think there are two different programs, but the bin name seems to change depending on which distro you use.)
This circumstance feels like the developers were pushed into supporting more circumstances than they wanted to target. My guess is that ntfsclone is targeted more at forensics and filesystem debugging, and that data recovery isn't its primary goal.
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cool, thanks, that works much better
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Heh. NP.
It also happens to work pretty well for backups of unencrypted CDROMs and DVD media. (If a DVD has CSS encryption, you can't back up the CSS keys by talking to the DVD-ROM drive as a normal block device.)
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I usually try to avoid needing extreme recovery tactics, but this is someone else's HDD. 4 years of travel photography... zero backups.
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ddrescue isn't extreme. Extreme is when you have to put the drive in the freezer to get it to run long enough to get more data. I had a coworker put an entire laptop in the refridgerator. Wish I'd taken a picture...