Hello,
I am trying to recover data from a failed drive. An initial attempt with dd
took over 12 hours and it was not even at half of the 80GB damaged drive; so
I quit. Info on the web pointed me to ddrescue
ddrescue -n /dev/sda /dev/sdc rescued.log
which has taken over 6 hours so far
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0
Current status
rescued: 58656 MB, errsize: 4408 kB, current rate: 4096 B/s
ipos: 58660 MB, errors: 32, average rate: 2958 kB/s
opos: 58660 MB, time from last successful read: 0 s
Copying non-tried blocks...
The "current rate" varies and sometimes is down to a few B/s!
Is this normal? The drive copied to is a USB external drive.
Thanks for inputs.
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Valmor
