[dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Gustav:

I like happy ending. :-)

Aside: Have you ever considered backing it up to the Cloud as I understand Microsoft gives unlimited room and being as their Cloud is using ZFS data loss is nearly impossible.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:53:14 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi Jim

That's what I did with Yodot: Copied the data file by file from the slow drive to a another physical drive.
So nothing more to do other than archiving the data from the good drive to a file server.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
Sendt: 6. oktober 2015 20:39
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi Gustav:

Excellent news. The question now is did all the data get recovered and how long will it take to move all the data off onto a new drive?

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 8:00:36 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi all

My guess at about 140 days for this job (see below) was quite precise. That would have been ultimo September.

It finished today!

I had to break it into some steps with a day in between now and then, so it was quite close.

The malfunctioning drive is running steady but at an incredibly low transfer speed. It has no warranty any longer, so does anyone know if you can "reignite" a SATA drive? In the old days you could do a low level format of a hard drive but I guess the SATA interface prohibits that.

/gustav
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