• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    I used ddrescue for a failing drive of not critical stuff, and had great success. Lots of guides online. If I were doing it again though, I would NOT image the whole drive – just the partition of interest. That greatly simplifies running fsck on the image and mounting it to recover the files.

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      10 days ago

      Yep, I guess it depends on how much data of interest is on the drive. You can hook it up to dmde with a ddrescue/OpenSuperClone-mounted drive, which can let you index the filesystem while it streams content to the backup image. It reads and remembers sectors already copied, and you can target specific files/folders so you don’t have to touch most of the drive.