Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
> John Pettitt wrote on 04.05.2007 at 20:23:49 [Re: [BackupPC-users] hard drive
> replacement]:
>> David Relson wrote:
>>> The drive with my BackupPC files on it is generating "I/O error"
>>> messages and reiserfsck's recommendation is, once a drive is reporting
>>> errors, it's nearing the end of its life and ought to be replaced.
>>>
>>> As I'd like to preserve my old backups, I'm looking for the best way
>>> to copy files from an old drive to a new one.
>>> [...]
>> If you can do it using DD to copy the raw partition (and growing the fs
>> as appropriate afterwards) will be way quicker.
>
> most definitely. Resizing the file system is no problem with reiserfs. Just
> make sure your destination drive/partition is at least as big as the source
> (preferably bigger).
>
> As your source drive is already producing I/O errors, you want to have a
> look at dd_rescue (in Debian the package is named "ddrescue"). dd won't copy
> past a read error.
Personally, I'd recommend just swapping the drive out and starting
fresh. Keep the old disk around in case you do need it, but the more
you do with it the more likely the errors will spread to affect the part
you might need. And the time you take getting the copy to work made
might be better spent grabbing good current backups.
--
Les Mikesell
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