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Can you recover from a backup with bad blocks?
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Mar 15, 20262165 viewsConfidence Score0%
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The hard drive in my Macbook recently gave up while using it on the plane (dual prop, lots of vibration unfortunately). I have a backup of its contents from a few weeks ago, but there are files that aren't included in it that I would like to recover. As it stands right now, I have it plugged to my …
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One possibility (a bit similar to @KCotreau's suggestion) is to use ddrescue to clone it to either another drive (at least as large as the original) or to a disk image file. What ddrescue does is to copy the contents of the drive, skipping over any …
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