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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Need some help with lost data on external drive Post 302914747 by brianjb on Wednesday 27th of August 2014 03:31:30 PM
Old 08-27-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
If you keep poking at your drive while it is "making funny noises" you are going to lose it completely. Make a raw dd copy if you have to, but get the contents off!

Either that, or stop poking at it until you have something to copy it onto.
I agree, that I was not thinking clearly at this time.

I do have some good news to report, though. I have the drive mounted, and I am in the process of copying the data off.

---------- Post updated at 01:31 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:08 PM ----------

I tried to manually copy the folders from one drive to another.

I tried to copy files from the failing drive to another drive. I get this error, "The operation can't be completed because the item XYZ is in use."

So then I try to open the terminal and issue this command:

Code:
$ cp -R /Volumes/Data/Software /Volumes/DATA2/

And it starts, then errors out.

So then I tried to tar up the directory. That started, then would error out.

I was going to try the dd command like suggested, but the destination disk was smaller than the amount that I had on the source disk. I am not familiar with that command, and I couldn't see how to copy a specific directory over.

So then after I was about to cry (not really...well almost), I realized that rsync would probably work.

So I kicked this off, and I got one directory to sync over to my other drive. I will do the other one now. I didn't want to tempt it, and just did the most important data first.

Code:
rsync -larP --exclude ".DS_Store" --exclude ".TemporaryItems" --exclude ".Trashes" /Volumes/Data/Software /Volumes/Data2/Software >> /Users/<snipped>/Desktop/rsync.log 2>&1

 

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SDL::Cdrom(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SDL::Cdrom(3)

NAME
SDL::Cdrom - a SDL perl extension for managing CD-ROM drives SYNOPSIS
use SDL::Cdrom; $cdrom = SDL::Cdrom->new(0); $cdrom->play(); EXPORTS
o "CD_NUM_DRIVES". DESCRIPTION
Create a new SDL::Cdrom object. The passed $id is the number of the drive, whereas 0 is the first drive etc. use SDL::Cdrom; my $drive => SDL::Cdrom->new($id); METHODS
CD_NUM_DRIVES() Returns the number of CD-ROM drives present. name() Returns the system dependent name of the CD-ROM device. status() Return the status of the drive. play() Play a track. pause() Pause the playing. resume() Resume the playing. stop() Stop the playing. eject() Eject the medium in the drive. id() Return the ID of the drive. num_tracks() Return the number of tracks on the medium. track() Returns the track description current() Return the current played track number. current_frame() Return the current frame. AUTHORS
David J. Goehrig Documentation by Tels <http://bloodgate.com/>. SEE ALSO
perl SDL::Mixer SDL::App. perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 SDL::Cdrom(3)
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