[TriLUG] SCP & CP Weirdness

Steven Blanchard sgblanch at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 18:49:22 EST 2006


Another option, depending on how much room you have on the server, you
could try using ntfsclone with the --rescue option.

http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html

Steven Blanchard

On 1/6/06, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
> i agree, try rsync.
>
> On 1/6/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > sorry I don't have an answer, but have you tried using rsync to see
> > what it does?
> >
> >
> > On 1/6/06, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am recovering data from a crashed windows drive formatted with
> > ntfs.  I
> > > have the drive in an external enclosure and it is connected at
> > > /media/usbdisk.  There are all kinds of bad sectors and messed up files
> > on
> > > this drive and I have been getting data from it for the past few days
> > but I
> > > have run into a strange situation when copying files and I wanted to see
> > if
> > > anyone had heard of this before...
> > >
> > > I've connected the external drive to my laptop and scp'd files over to
> > my
> > > server and I've connected the drive straight to my server and just cp'd
> > the
> > > files.  Everything seemed to be working until I tried to copy a large
> > > (~30GB) directory over. Unlike the other stuff I have copied from the
> > drive
> > > this is a directory of directories of directories of files. The other
> > things
> > > I copied had no subdir's.  I did scp -r to get all of the subdirectories
> > but
> > > it only copied maybe 5 out of 60.  I thought it may have been because I
> > was
> > > scp'ing over a wireless laptop connection and it might be timing out so
> > I
> > > connected directly to the server and got the same result.  The strange
> > part
> > > is that I can cd directly to these subdir's and cp the files manually.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea why cp would only get some subdir's and not
> > > others?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark.
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