[Leaplist] Fastest backup possible?

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

fastest and simplest I can think of would be to use dd (disk dump).

Personally, I'd assume that I probably can't salvage the whole drive and
simply target exactly what I want or *must* save, and toss the rest. If
you wanted to keep the OS, you would have done a RAID.

I too have heard of refrigerating a drive to revive it for a short period
of time... but I'd assume that that period *will* be short.
<quote who="Chris">
>
> I was busy gimping away on some web buttons, and my laptop
> drive made a couple of funny ticking noises. Strange, it's never
> ticked like that. Curious, I hit dmesg and saw a couple of drive
> errors on hda. So I  closed out my work, hit Synaptic to grab
> some S.M.A.R.T. drive utilities. Oops - as I was downloading,
> my drive made a couple more funny ticking noises - then a bunch
> of unfunny ticking noises, followed by a desktop lockup. Trusting
> the gods of ext3, I hit the power button, and pulled the drive.
>
> I've heard that sometimes drives can be temporarily revived
> with a few hours in the fridge. Any truth to that? If I do get the
> drive to come alive, what's the least drive-thrashing, fastest
> way to get my home folder onto another drive? I've got other
> machines and a 100mb network - I figured plugging the laptop
> in would be much faster than wireless.
>
> Thoughts, tips and tricks appreciated.
>
> Cheers, Chris
>
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