Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:38:59 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: kellymartin@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard disk failure - now what? Message-ID: <4a939513.NMAP0NNWLEg7ayVF%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <44y6p9q7rd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1338880b0908241129p75b6845cg26d21804e118364@mail.gmail.com> <44y6p9q7rd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Kelly Martin <kellymartin@gmail.com> writes: > > I just experienced a hard drive failure on one of my > > FreeBSD 7.2 production servers with no backup! ... > First, try copying the entire disk, *without* mounting it. Yep. > Use dd(1) to get a copy of the whole disk. I believe that > "conv=noerror" may be necessary. Much better: use sysutils/ddrescue, which was written specifically to deal with this sort of situation.
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