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Hi, I have a 5TB drive and have tried mirroring it on to another drive using ddrescue, but its got slower and slower, showing 159days eventually with the machine freezing. But it has not shown any bad sectors only read error.

I am interested in recovering specific directories or as many files within those directories as possible. I would also like continuing to mirror any read sectors to the second disk.

Is this possible with TestDisk ?

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

AaronNGray wrote: 04 May 2025, 20:56 Hi, I have a 5TB drive and have tried mirroring it on to another drive using ddrescue, but its got slower and slower, showing 159days eventually with the machine freezing. But it has not shown any bad sectors only read error.

I am interested in recovering specific directories or as many files within those directories as possible.

If the related metdata can be read out yes, otherwise no.

I would also like continuing to mirror any read sectors to the second disk.

Nobody is preventing you from doing so.

Is this possible with TestDisk ?


Many thanks in advance,

Aaron