[Info-vax] Backup A Dying Disk.

[Paul Sture]

On 2015-03-17, Jerry Weiss <jsw at ieee.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 3:00:37 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> 
>> If you don't know what's on the disk, then let BACKUP run to 
>> completion, and for as long as it takes.
>> 
>> The more that disk is accessed including by BACKUP, the more times 
>> BACKUP is restarted, ^Y and all the rest, the more sectors disappear 
>> forever.
>> 
>
> The housekeeping on this system was non-existent, so I'm doing a
> backup/image and will leave the forensics/salvage to later.    If
> there is no way to set IO$M_INHRETRY globally for the drive, I'll just
> wait it out.
>
> Thanks for the quick feedback.

Sorry I'm late to this thread but the last time I was confronted with a
dying RD54 it appeared to get worse as the system got warmer, so I
switched the system off overnight and then grabbed a copy in one fell
swoop first thing the next morning.

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