Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Mac OS X Tips

[jesmith]

Well, after all that, the drive will no longer function at all, after only
getting about 45% of the content off it, which is not enough to reconstruct
any kind of a file system.  Alas.  We'll take it to the apple store, to see
if they have any magic tricks I don't know.

One more Tip: If your drive is starting to fail, it will eventually
completely fail.  Before using ddrescue to try to clone it, use pax to copy
everything you can (pax -rwv is like cp -R, except it handles errors more
gracefully).  Once you are sure you've gotten all the intact files, then
switch to ddrescue for a chance to get everything else, if you are lucky
enough to not have a complete drive meltdown.  Reading tens of gigs from a
drive that is failing is probably going to push it past it's limits.

-Joshua

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