![]() # Lots of Passes to try to recover slow sections. ![]() Sudo ddrescue -f -reopen-on-error -min-read-rate=8000 /dev/sdd2 /dev/sdc1 /home/ubuntu/Documents/log1.log # First run to cover myself in case the drive died more seriously. For the first command, I stopped it at around 90 percent of the way through the drive and swapped it for the second one. In the end I used these commands, make sure to replace the drives with your setup and the minimum read rate to one your drive is comfortable with. To make ddrescue faster I found it was best to watch the drive speed in ddrescue-gui and then I scrapped it over the command line for a faster experience. I found that the tools worked well but took way to long for the drive, you can see in the remaining time section of ddrescue-gui it would have taken an estimated 60 days to recover the data at the fastest setting. I booted in to a persistent live Ubuntu 20 environment and installed ddrescue, ddrescueview and ddrescue-gui. DDRESCUE GUI Data Recovery DDRESCUEVIEW Preview I use the cheapest storage option, S3 Glacier Deep Archive. So I ordered 2*6TB drives and thought I’d better have a go at moving the data and making sure my backups were up to date.įor my backups, I use cloudberry backup (now called something else) which is an encryptable cloud backup solution which is compatible with Amazon’s S3. It took me about 3 reboots to decide something was up and I used Crystal Disk Mark to check the disk and sure enough it was reporting ‘Bad’. ![]() ![]() I first noticed when the PC was loading into check disk after every reboot. Restoring from S3 is expensive £27.53 for ~400GBĪ week or so ago I realised that my hard drive was on the way out, its been on for almost 27,000 hours according to the SMART data.One of my hard drives failed, I thought I’d try to recover the valuable 400GB using ddrescue, it sort of worked.I recovered my data from AWS S3 and all I got was this lousy bill. ![]()
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