On Friday 15 October 2010 01:24:39 Orion Vianna wrote: > Hello, > > Whats the best method of backup when HD is failing? > I'm thinking of using ddrescue.
That's probably a good first course of action -- which will make a backup of what you can get in case the drive fails totally. >From there, if you have data on a corrupted ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem, you might also consider trying debugfs. If you believe the HD might not be having hardware failure, then you might also try some of the low-level disk utilities to see "just how far gone" the thing is. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment Jan 5 - Building a Comunity Site with Drupal
