[mythtv-users] Playback drops with news crawl

[Barry Martin]

>> 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.


Thanks Stephen!  I'll go with rsync first and probably not copy any 
errored shows.  Will keep your note for future reference -- obviously 
great information for all data copy jobs.


Barry

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