Re: size 2.73TiB used 240.97GiB after balance

[Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>]

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On 2015-07-08 18:16, Donald Pearson wrote:
> Basically I wouldn't trust the drive that's already showing signs of
> failure to survive a dd.  It isn't completely full, so the recover is
> less load.  That's just the way I see it.  But I see your point of
> trying to get drive images now to hedge against failures.
>
> Unfortunately those errors are over my head so hopefully someone else
> has insights.
>
A better option if you want a block level copy would probably be 
ddrescue (it's available in almost every distro in a package of the same 
name), it's designed for recovering as much data as possible from failed 
disks (and gives a much nicer status display than plain old dd).  If you 
do go for a block level copy however, make certain that no more than one 
of the copies is visible to the system at any given time, especially 
when the filesystem is mounted, otherwise things _WILL_ get 
exponentially worse.



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