[dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Jim et al

Something strange has happened.

I've set it to copy about 25 GB per batch which should last for 5-6 days.

The last couple of days I've started the copy and it went along for about 23 hours. From the log I can see, then suddenly it jumps to normal speed and copies the rest of the files in few minutes.

Then I set it to copy a new batch. Same picture, extremely slow for 20+ hours, then jump to normal speed.
I'ver never seen anything like this.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 13. august 2015 06:50
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Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Gustav:

We are all getting anxious for the great day.

Jim 

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From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 9:25:26 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Jon

It is still running. I had to make a break and move it to another machine, but it also sometimes crashes the Yodot program and I have to restart a session, so it is not running steady. Further, some weeks have been assigned for holidays.

I guess more than a month will pass ...

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jon Tydda
Sendt: 11. august 2015 17:53
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Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Gustav

Did this ever finish, or is it still going? :-)


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 2:17 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Jim

Now passed 10% at 117 GB ...

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
Sendt: 13. maj 2015 20:35
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Jim

No I haven't - and at this time a can't plug it in. So I cross fingers, but power here is very stable.

However, the copy process of Yodot has an option for not trying to replace existing files, so worst case after a relaunch would be the extra time to read the directory structure and move through the existing file list. It couldn't take that long.

In the meantime: Passed 6% at 72 GB ...

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 13. maj 2015 20:22
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Gustav:

Do you have a UPS attached to the computer? It might be frustrating if the power went out sometime in September just before the program wrote the boot track.

If this works as planned Yodot will definitely be the go to application for drive recovery.

Jim

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From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:20:23 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or?

Hi Jim

Yes:

<quote>
So I turned to Yodot (the drive repair version at USD 80) which, as the first, tries to pull the data off the drive before attempting a repair. This seems to run - at about 330 MB per hour.

Speak about patience: my little calculator tells me that the job will go on for 140 days ...
</quote>

It seems to run steady.

/gustav