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jm2012 · 2012-06-02 21:59:20

I have a damaged external hard drive. I want to copy select folders from it to the NAS. Is there a good tool or Linux command for this? I have installed FFP.

I would use TeraCopy, because it logs errors and skips damaged files, but it doesn't seem to work reliably with the NAS.

The problem with the hard drive is that it's very slow to list files, returns CRC errors in some programs and returned an "LBA" error in a data recovery program. It's a 2 TB drive, and I don't have enough free space to create an image using dd_rescue or similar commands.

I tried running Knoppix to experiment with rsync and cp, but I couldn't figure out how to mount the NAS and was very confused, so I will appreciate any help.

jm2012 · 2012-06-03 05:40:41

It turns out there's a free Windows version of rsync available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sereds/files/cwRsync/, which seems to work properly. I plan to use:

Code:

rsync -avPW --stats "<source path>" "<destination path>"

with the paths in the following format (external drive mapped to G: and NAS mapped to Z

Code:

"/cygdrive/g/<path to source folder >/" "/cygdrive/z/<path to destination folder"

I'll run this several times, on various folders, based on how important the folders are.

Some of the folders contain hundreds of tiny files; some contain tens of very large files. From a drive wear perspective, does it matter which I copy first?

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Copy files from damaged NTFS external drive to NAS in Windows XP

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