Minor disaster recovery

[Jeffry Smith]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Tyson Sawyer<tyson at j3.org> wrote:
> > The filesystem on the system drive is (or should be) backed up.
>
>
>
>  Don't try.  As Jeff Smith said, the more you tinker, the worse
> things usually get.
>
>  If you intend to attempt to recover data from the failed disk, I
> would suggest making a block level image, like Jeff said.  But I'd
> recommend using the "dd_rescue" and "dd_rhelp" utilities to do so.
> dd_rhelp will supervise dd_rescue, and use it to recovery easily
> readable blocks first, and then try harder for the remaining blocks.
>
>  Once you've got the block-level image, you can examine it at your
> leisure, without worrying about if the drive is about to die for good.
>
>

First I've heard about dd_rescue and dd_rhelp - is that showing my age?

jeff
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