Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-24 Thread ludovico van
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:20 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:08 +0100, ludovico van wrote: > so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, so i can copy only selected files? > >

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-23 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:08 +0100, ludovico van wrote: >>> so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe >>> retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, >>> so i can copy only selected files? >> >> I think the problem is next step -- if such program

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-20 Thread ludovico van
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:25:07 +0100, ludovico van wrote: > >> so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe >> retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, so >> i can copy only selected files? > > I thi

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-20 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:25:07 +0100, ludovico van wrote: > so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe > retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, so > i can copy only selected files? I think the problem is next step -- if such program does exist,

ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

2010-01-20 Thread ludovico van
hi all, i have a damaged HD with many bad blocks on it, and i'm trying to recover its files. the first try was using ddrescue, but (even with the --no-split option) it took an entire day to only copy a couple of GiB... since i can successfully mount the disk and browse its files, it would be nic