On Ubuntu, my disk gave its SMART notification so I immediately tried to copy files to another disk. That failed. So now I'm trying ddrescue (partition to partition). It is running ridiculously slow. I mean it would be several weeks to copy this entire partition.
Each time it encounters an error, of which there seems to be many, it takes 1 minute to issue the next IOP. That means that either:
1-the reads are timing out instead of completing in a second or so with failure status
2-the disk itself is trying for 60s to recover the data before finally giving up and returning failure status.
Does ddrescue have a parameter to be less patient with the disk? It's heroic of the disk to try this hard to complete a read. But taken collectively, it means I'll spend weeks on the bad blocks just to get to the good blocks.
