From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3975D138334 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 759A7E0BC6; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:42:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pl1-f173.google.com (mail-pl1-f173.google.com [209.85.214.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0167AE0B37 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pl1-f173.google.com with SMTP id t13so6589943ply.13 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:42:12 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=HkT/Iku9/EZBxSnnw2I4Rh1GruKqSsWt4rb6/RhSL+s=; b=kPuKGaz8sPWHHiumZCnTac1CsaF91L3fah/Ej7BZxYNUqohe4s6dbXxOebJq7r4/vU GaMzQK6xSfap//cp2cFr7BXY0SLIn3rsHGctQbB+CVNbBDqpliZALz5ePvkOjr1Bg7gM f1O/R+b/19VO1MTU9FWu1PpZkqNZ+Up8JS24tc5dFxawi4lEFO4xvAJVWZejeG/Z7WRR Y821Kx+Hled6YbPn0Nr6h6zpDbkYwsAvflPYS8ySA3VtQgFjdbRhPcyR91gdN0weLGkm swwnnTLC1WQ5vek0X+OsvmaJtRxFqoKgd+hH+BlDILcL5utIZwgnE71jKbZUaixVbKbF DuDg== X-Gm-Message-State: AA+aEWY1osrJZhfQGx7wWqWf3GLE2V9owpy2zM6CEN+NSbTQFiodiB3z 7cZLmgdbBVwhYpr3AsOXeehY9KozRb1Lkxu9RFo/bf4r X-Google-Smtp-Source: AFSGD/UxuWK5bKyYGWDXkw1DdUa0oJJ+QhmZSrHCpGKnJspdy7DoKafAmhyz98Nz68KOt1n+0xzo6UOBz/rFqyzNI6o= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:ab84:: with SMTP id f4mr13383265plr.207.1545075731371; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 11:42:11 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Rich Freeman Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:42:00 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] data recovery advice needed To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: a5afa941-078d-4b1b-a57d-855956db8d70 X-Archives-Hash: 50528037f9130be17ad400fff1775b9f On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:32 PM Jack wrote: > > ddrescue has now been running for almost 22 hours, and it's been 47 > seconds less than that since its last successful read. There is of course no guarantee that it will EVER successfully read all your data. You might be able to tell it to skip blocks and move on. Obviously all it can do is keep asking the drive to try again. If you want better than that then you're talking clean room rescue measures. > I did one run of testdisk on one partition on the drive months ago. > One problem is that the extension on the recovered files is not > necessarily the original extension (even if the file is actually > recoverable) and there seem to be some file types is doesn't (or didn't > then) know about. I may well try it again after much more reading on > tuning its behavior. Even in the best of circumstances this sort of approach is painstaking. If that drive has the only photos of your kid's birth it might be worth the trouble to you. If you're trying to rescue your bittorrent collection I'd suggest moving on. Or you can try to pay somebody to do it for you. There is a reason those recovery companies charge an arm and a leg. People who are desperate enough to need their services don't have many other options... -- Rich