In future make backups and leave another copy on google docs, it's free and easy to use.
On 27 February 2012 17:26, sgd
<address@hidden> wrote:
Hi,
Working on my phd, because of lack of space, stupidly was not making regular
backups.
hdd dies: system was working over night, the next day won't write, says
"read-only file system".
did reboot, won't see the partitions of the disk anymore (The disk is
present on /dev/)
tried tu rescue with ddrescue (1.15)...
1st Run:
/usr/local/bin/ddrescue -n /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile
/mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 0 B, errors: 0, average rate: 0 B/s
opos: 0 B, time from last successful read: 1 s
Finished
-----------------------
Second Run:
/usr/local/bin/ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile
/mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 0 B, errors: 0, average rate: 0 B/s
opos: 0 B, time from last successful read: 1 s
Finished
------------------------
Fourth run:
/usr/local/bin/ddrescue -i1 -n /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile
/mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 9223 PB, errors: 1
Current status
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 9223 PB, current rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 0 B, errors: 1, average rate: 0 B/s
opos: 0 B, time from last successful read: 0 s
Finished
#Petabytes!!!??
-------------------------
Fifth run:
/usr/local/bin/ddrescue -i1 -d -r3 /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile
/mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 9223 PB, errors: 1
Current status
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 9223 PB, current rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 1152 PB, errors: 1, average rate: 0 B/s
opos: 1152 PB, time from last successful read: 16 s
^Clitting failed blocks...
Interrupted by user
--------------------------------------------
Sixth run:
/usr/local/bin/ddrescue -i1 -s146815733760 -d -r3 /dev/sdb
/mnt/tmp/temp/imagefile /mnt/tmp/temp/image.logfile
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 146 GB, errors: 1
Current status
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 146 GB, current rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 98768 MB, errors: 1, average rate: 0 B/s
opos: 98768 MB, time from last successful read: 21 s
Splitting failed blocks...
Interrupted by user.
#ipos and opos keeps cycling from several MB to thousand of MB...
The disk: (SAS) SCSI SEAGATE, Model: ST3146854SS, 136.7 GB (146,815,733,760
bytes).
What I am doing wrong? what could be done? please help!!!!
Guillermo.
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