Re: rsync seems to overwhelm a failing hard disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The best tool for getting data off of a failing hard drive is ddrescue: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html Make sure you run it with the log file option. You can run it multiple times possibly with power cycles in between and it will

rsync seems to overwhelm a failing hard disk

Hello rsync people Today I was recovering data from a beginning-to-fail external USB hard disk. I started with my usual 'rsync -av --ignore-errors ', and that was fine until it got to the first I/O errors. It paused but continued after the first couple of errors, but then the disk started b

[Bug 10290] Regression since 3.0.9: send_xattr_request: Assertion `f_out >= 0' failed

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10290 Wayne Davison changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #1 from Wayne Davison

[Bug 10272] resource fork handling is broken in 3.1.0

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10272 Wayne Davison changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|

[Bug 10238] --dry-run does not change directory, causes --link-dest failure on symlinks

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10238 Wayne Davison changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|