I'm having a hard time finding others with the same error, and I'm trying to figure out the best path forward.
I have a hard drive that was unusably slow, and then stopped booting. The clonezilla clone failed, and I started a ddrescue, using the gnu rescue tool. It is going unbelievably slow averaging about 400 kBps for a 2 TB drive, so I'm estimating almost 4 months! at this point. My last backup was sadly about 2 years ago, and there are a lot of pictures I'd like to get off of it. The surprising part is that its rescued about 50 GB, with no errors so far, even though its taken 3 days.
My clonezilla question is about where the logfile is likely going. This is already likely a wasted effort, but if I'm talking at all about keeping it running for even weeks, I'd like to get that logfile onto a flash drive. I originally thought it was going onto the new larger hard drive, but now I realize its likely on the RAM drive clonezilla_live is utilizing. Is it safe to insert a formatted USB drive, mount it, and copy over the log file, then restart the ddrescue? Will the clonezilla shell even recognize that I inserted the USB stick that wasn't there on boot, so I can mount it?
I'm assuming I'd try "fdisk -1" to list the disks, then make a directory? "sudo mkdir /logfile/usb" then mount it? "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb", then copy?
ANY feedback would be appreciated. I've screwed around in Unix shell a bit, setup a z-pool raid, but always when I knew exactly what I was doing, and not in linux, let alone a bare-bones version.
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Fighting on, still moving slowly but i'm ~255 GB of 1800 (1.8 tb) in about 9 days. Speed has been a consistently slow 1.4 GB/hour, about 30 GB a day. Will update, I'm almost more curious to see than actually interested in 96% of the data.
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"to insert a formatted USB drive, mount it, and copy over the log file, then restart the ddrescue? " -> Yes.
"Will the clonezilla shell even recognize that I inserted the USB stick that wasn't there on boot, so I can mount it?" -> Yes. You can switch to console 2 by pressing alt-F2 to do that if you need more console to work on.
"d try "fdisk -1" to list the disks, then make a directory? "sudo mkdir /logfile/usb" then mount it? "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb", then copy?" -> Yes.
Good luck.
Steven.
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I'm having a hard time finding others with the same error, and I'm trying to figure out the best path forward.
I have a hard drive that was unusably slow, and then stopped booting. The clonezilla clone failed, and I started a ddrescue, using the gnu rescue tool. It is going unbelievably slow averaging about 400 kBps for a 2 TB drive, so I'm estimating almost 4 months! at this point. My last backup was sadly about 2 years ago, and there are a lot of pictures I'd like to get off of it. The surprising part is that its rescued about 50 GB, with no errors so far, even though its taken 3 days.
My clonezilla question is about where the logfile is likely going. This is already likely a wasted effort, but if I'm talking at all about keeping it running for even weeks, I'd like to get that logfile onto a flash drive. I originally thought it was going onto the new larger hard drive, but now I realize its likely on the RAM drive clonezilla_live is utilizing. Is it safe to insert a formatted USB drive, mount it, and copy over the log file, then restart the ddrescue? Will the clonezilla shell even recognize that I inserted the USB stick that wasn't there on boot, so I can mount it?
I'm assuming I'd try "fdisk -1" to list the disks, then make a directory? "sudo mkdir /logfile/usb" then mount it? "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb", then copy?
ANY feedback would be appreciated. I've screwed around in Unix shell a bit, setup a z-pool raid, but always when I knew exactly what I was doing, and not in linux, let alone a bare-bones version.
Fighting on, still moving slowly but i'm ~255 GB of 1800 (1.8 tb) in about 9 days. Speed has been a consistently slow 1.4 GB/hour, about 30 GB a day. Will update, I'm almost more curious to see than actually interested in 96% of the data.
"to insert a formatted USB drive, mount it, and copy over the log file, then restart the ddrescue? " -> Yes.
"Will the clonezilla shell even recognize that I inserted the USB stick that wasn't there on boot, so I can mount it?" -> Yes. You can switch to console 2 by pressing alt-F2 to do that if you need more console to work on.
"d try "fdisk -1" to list the disks, then make a directory? "sudo mkdir /logfile/usb" then mount it? "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb", then copy?" -> Yes.
Good luck.
Steven.