I am trying to do a full backup of my home directory on an SSD drive
with about 70 GB of content via a straight folder to folder copy in
Dolphin.
When I did the copy, the process reported a file could not be read.  I
answered Skip and it continued.   A short while later it reported
another file could not be read.   I answered Auto Skip.  Then I went
to bed.

When I woke it, it appeared that the process had completed, but that
only 69 of the 70 GB had been copied, ie there were a lot of
unreadable files.

I pulled the drive from the laptop and installed it into another
working system as a data drive.

The drive is formatted EXT4.  It has 3 partitions, /boot, swap and /.

When I run fsck on it, it reports its clean.

[root@server me]# fsck /dev/sdb1
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
/boot: clean, 300/150600 files, 178166/610436 blocks
[root@server me]# fsck /dev/sdb2
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
fsck: fsck.swap: not found
fsck: error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/sdb2
[root@server me]# fsck /dev/sdb3
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
/: clean, 1063293/37126144 files, 29660166/37120190 blocks

I ran the process again and tried to nano the files that its reporting
it can't read.   Nano can't open them either and they are not binary
files.

Where do I go from here ?

How would I best do a command line copy such that it doesn't stop at
the files it can't read and it creates a log of them ?  (What does cp
--force do ?)

Thanks !
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