[mythtv-users] Playback drops with news crawl

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:22:39 -0600, you wrote:

>
>Hi Stephen!
>
>> My policy for drives with pending sectors is to replace them.  I copy
>> all the data to the new drive, which can be a bit problematical as any
>> pending sectors may not be readable.  Then I do a full write format on
>> the old drive and if it is clean after that...
>
>Thanks for your insight!  So it sounds like my drive isn't "deathly 
>sick", just has a "cold" and needs a little "chicken soup" 
>(formatting).  At this point I'll replace the drive (new one ordered) 
>and copy things over.  Any preferences on the copy function? I was 
>originally thinking dd, though now with the bad sectors....   cp and 
>rsync have their positives also.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Barry

When you have bad sectors to copy, the goto tool is ddrescue, from the
gddrescue package.  It is capable of doing a full partition copy, or
with scripting, doing file copies.  If you want to do file copies, it
is usually easier to use a nice tool like rsync first, then get the
list of errored files from rsync's log and use ddrescue on those files
individually.