[Gllug] Netware data recovery

[Rich Walker]

Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:32:22PM +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>    I am trying to help recover as many files as possible from an
>> elderly and failing hard disc running Netware 3.12. I understand that it has
[snip]>
> Anyway, my suggestion is to use 'dd' to copy the partition byte-
> for-byte onto another disk or remote-mounted filesystem.

ITYM dd_rescue - much better at coping with failing disks.

> dd_rescue is a tool to help you to save data from crashed partition.
> It tries to read and if it fails, it will go on with the next sectors
> where tools like dd will fail. If the copying process is interrupted
> by the user it is possible to continue at any position later.
> It can copy backwards.

I've used it to recover failing CDs in the past (make multiple copies on
differing CD drives, use "most common byte" voting to get outcome)/

cheers, Rich.


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