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HDD error waiting time on bad sector

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HDD error waiting time on bad sector

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During recovering a faulty HDD with PhotoRec I get blk_update_request I/O errors reading some sectors, which is not all that surprising :lol: Anyway, message says

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blk_update_request I/O error........... waited 180 seconds
I get it, sector is bad, move on... Is there any way to shorten that 3 minute waiting time?

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Re: HDD error waiting time on bad sector

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metman wrote: 2022-09-25 09:58 During recovering a faulty HDD with PhotoRec
Are you lost?

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Re: HDD error waiting time on bad sector

#3 Post by Segfault »

Looks like your hard drive is not the only thing what is faulty, your backup policy seems to be broken, too. Did you know you can configure rsnapshot to back up your work hourly? Or even more frequently? It uses hard links and backups will not grow out of hand in size.
Anyhow, you are supposed to take the image of failing hard drive with ddrescue and work on it instead of torturing the failing hard drive even more.

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