Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:22:56 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: kellymartin@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard disk failure - now what? Message-ID: <44ocq3lxyn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4a939513.NMAP0NNWLEg7ayVF%perryh@pluto.rain.com> (perryh@pluto.rain.com's message of "Tue\, 25 Aug 2009 00\:38\:59 -0700") References: <1338880b0908241129p75b6845cg26d21804e118364@mail.gmail.com> <44y6p9q7rd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4a939513.NMAP0NNWLEg7ayVF%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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perryh@pluto.rain.com writes: > 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. Excellent suggestion. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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