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Date:      Tue, 31 May 2016 10:41:42 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>, "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>, Evgeny Sam <esamorokov@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS - RAIDZ1 Recovery (Evgeny Sam)
Message-ID:  <1464709302.3816627.623738921.185742BF@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <e3b139e8-e205-a2bd-706b-bb3c00215004@digiware.nl>
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On Tue, May 31, 2016, at 05:15, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> On 30-5-2016 22:21, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> > There are several good ways to duplicate a disk, and at the top of the
> > list are tools known to the people you are going to need help from. That
> > means using the 'dd' command to duplicate the entire disk including the
> > GPT labels. Or use something from Polytropon's list posted to these lists
> > (usually the questions list mostly) every so often.
> > 
> > The dd command when given the "conv=noerror,sync" option can be used to
> > duplicate an entire disk. Then a ZFS scrub can correct the lost blocks.
> 
> Might I suggest dd_rescue here?
> 
> Sort of designed for precisely this problem.
> Does large bulk transfers, but when in error it reduces blocksize to the
> sector, and tries several times....
> And there are lots of other options.
> 
> So it is fast and as accurate as it can get.
> 
> Save my life a few times.
> 

FreeBSD has its own built-in dd_rescue alternative called recoverdisk


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  Mark Felder
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