What Are You Doing Right Now

JaredBusch

Cloning a drive in a failed Vista system to a USB disk.

Tried to just mount it, so I could copy user files but it failed.

We'll see if this works in 4 hours or so.

EddieJennings

@JaredBusch Not the same use case, but this weekend I discovered dd for making bootable USB drives.

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch Not the same use case, but this weekend I discovered dd for making bootable USB drives.

dd is one of those tools that once you learn how powerful and simple it is, you can't figure out why Windows is lacking it. It's amazing how often the answer on Windows is "if only you had dd this wouldn't be an issue."

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller Yeah. The process for windows (which works most of the time) is

cleaning a disk with diskpart
creating a new primary partition, formatting it, and marking it as active with diskpart
Mounting an iso file and copying its contents onto the newly prepared USB drive from above.

JaredBusch

Yeah, live booted to the Korora USB I had in my bag from converting my desktop and laptop.

User has a new computer, but I need to try and save the data.

EddieJennings

Poking around ownCloud's site. This looks pretty nifty.

JaredBusch

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Poking around ownCloud's site. This looks pretty nifty.

Don't use ownCloud. Use Nextcloud today.

dbeato

@JaredBusch I have a computer dedicated for recovery like theses. Old Pentimum D with 4 GB of RAM with Ubuntu and two 1 500 GB drive and two 2 TB drives for Image storage. It works well.

dbeato

Why this?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2004399-install-windows-server-2016-from-usb-not-working-on-dell-r420?source=superfeed

JaredBusch

Made it halfway before it started to have errors, but still chugging away.

EddieJennings

Back to Cinnamon. KDE Plasma's loading time was annoying me. Setting font scaling to 1.5 seems to meet my display needs while maintaining 1920x1080 resolution.

hobbit666

Waiting for our WatchGuard Dimensions server to be built and set-up ....................

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Made it halfway before it started to have errors, but still chugging away.

I've never encountered errors while using DD, what can you do when this happens?

dafyre

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Made it halfway before it started to have errors, but still chugging away.

That looks like bad sectors there. Maybe it gets all the important data.

DustinB3403

Morning coffee and tickets.

dafyre

Morning caffiene and two ACs out in one server room, and the other server room is starting to heat up too.

wirestyle22

Got my morning caffeine syringe from my dealer and I'm dicking around with a vultr instance until I have to go to a meeting.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Made it halfway before it started to have errors, but still chugging away.

I've never encountered errors while using DD, what can you do when this happens?

I told it to fill zero's on the destination anytime it had something unreadable on the source.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdf bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress

The conv switch is the magic here.
noerrror means do not stop on error.
sync means to fill zeros in the destination on read error. The point of it is to keep the file allocation table correct.

EddieJennings

I win! (f0 r3@lz this time)

Found this in our Windstream T1 contract.

Within "Addendum to customer service agreement"

Auto Renewal:
The following shall be inserted in lieu of sentence two 2) of CSA Section 1. Term and Renewal:
Upon expiration of the Term, this Agreement will automatically renew for successive month-to-moth terms (each, a "Renewal Term") until terminated or cancelled pursuant to its terms.

The original sentence two: Upon expiration of the Term, this Agreement will automatically renew for successive one-year terms, (each, a "Renewal Term") until terminated or cancelled pursuant to its terms.

I'm sure there will be other gotchas to find as I look at how to leave them, but discovering that made for a nice Monday morning.

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Made it halfway before it started to have errors, but still chugging away.

I've never encountered errors while using DD, what can you do when this happens?

I told it to fill zero's on the destination anytime it had something unreadable on the source.
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdf bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress
The conv switch is the magic here.
noerrror means do not stop on error.
sync means to fill zeros in the destination on read error. The point of it is to keep the file allocation table correct.

Thanks for the explanation.