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5imj
2013 Nov 25
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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 <source> <dest>', 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
buzzing and rsync gave error messages for every file (I'm afraid