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Zenth
Asked: 2012-06-01 09:07:50 +0800 CST

Copy directory to external from corrup driver

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i need help critical, rifht now a HDD in my server its corrupt, need to force fsck over the partition (ext2 ubuntu 8.10), but I need to extrack files before the command for secure reasons..

I get mounted the partition in a live CD, and mount a external USB driver, and need to copy the files in the /var/www of corrup drive to the external.

The question, is I need to copy ALL files and dirs (cp -R), BUT IGNORING POSSIBLE CRC ERRORS.

It is possible?

Thanks a lot!

hard-drive linux copy

1 Answers

  1. If you have a large enough (good) drive, try with ddrescue. It will try to copy your whole drive/partition, and try to separate end exclude bad sectors. After that, you can mount that partition on the other system ("mount /somewhere/partitiondump.dd" /mnt -o loop"). You can also make a copy of it, and try running fsck on it, to see if it helps, or messes up things even more.

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