My hard drive in my main home server (linux based) has gone bad. I have a warranty replacement here, with the advanced option I have both for about 2 weeks now. I'm trying to recover the data off the old drive and not doing terribly well. I have both drives installed, and I have been 'dd'ing the data over. First try, as I expected, the drive gave out in the middle. When that happens, it locks the whole computer right up. Then I tried manually doing chunks of about 15 ish gigs at a time, and with pauses in between it seemed to all go right, but then an fsck showed countless bad files and directories.
Then I tried scripting it to copy 10 gigs, wait 10 minutes, and do the next 10. That also died in the middle.
So I am having a tough time. I have an old faulty drive, which I can read, but it will periodically crash the whole computer. I've got another, identical, replacement drive in the machine. I am wondering what's the most reliable way to copy over all the data?
They are both maxtor SATA drives, if it makes a difference. 250GB, about half used.
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