tqft's Journal: Warning multipe rants follow, may not be SFW, may contain traces of nuts

Ok who thought it was a good idea so that when you have a failing disk to keep popping up the warnings. The warnings I can live with but ...
they stop you mounting anything such as an external disk drive on which you might want to backup stuff to.

So rather than 30 Mb/s I have been getting 3Mb/s or less
rsync -avz -e ssh [e-mail]:/newmovies/ /media/movies/ where /media/movies is an external harddisk.
yes movies actually mpeg (transport stream) and mp4 files of recorded tv shows - eg
Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe - ABC1 - Mon 26 Dec 2011 19:26:00 EST
2.8Gb which i haven't been able to rip because I have been busy stripping the machine before I dban it. Still going.
There is a 15Gb file to come http://www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s3345415.htm

I could have stopped the machine and rebooted with a live cd (puppy) but worried the disks may not come up. Am avoiding stressing the disks.

Some fuckhead machine operator appears to have lost or deleted all his ripped Blakes7 from DVD except what is on his iPod which can't be mounted on the desktop because of the disk errors, and is no use mounting on the laptop because libmp4v2 has been deleted from Ubuntu 11.10
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+question/180549

My laptop /home now has 2.1Gb spare. 2Gb will be freed up soon once I burn the debian gnome and kde dvds and verify they work.

I am going to have to get better organised.

SpinRite

[chill]

I have had very good results recovering discs with SpinRite [grc.com].

Have you tried XBMC for organizing? I have close to a Tb of DVDs, BRs and TV rips and XBMC handles it all wonderfully. Even my wife can figure it out.

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[Captain Splendid]

Another vote for Spinrite. Takes forever, but it does the job.

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[tqft]

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2598670&cid=38560652 [slashdot.org]

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[tqft]

Managed to save almost everything of the desktop except for the accidental rm -rf * in my home directory which took out a few files not elsewhere saved - mostly isos. And tested the backup files to see if they work.

Even better just checked other backup harddrive and everything else that should have been there actually is. Didn't try mounting it on laptop so vast quantity of older movies is there - 8 diagram polefighter & 34 chamber of shaolin in particular. but also some interviews and footage not ot

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[chill]

Congrats on saving most of it.

Try this?

[tomhudson]

dd if=/dev/bad_disk of=/path_to_external_drive/bad_drive.iso

It gives you a quick-and-dirty backup of the partition so that you can then risk using a different tool to retry reading every bad sector over and over, and if it dies half-way through, you haven't lost everything.

Of course, I'd also let sit on a shelf for a month - I have a couple of 250gig hard drives that are totally failed, but after sitting around for a few months, I was able to read ALL the data off them again - repeatedly, every time the

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[tqft]

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2598670&cid=38560652 [slashdot.org]