Creating RAW imgaes

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alex4478
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Creating RAW imgaes

Post by alex4478 » Sat Dec 10, 2016 12:33 am

Hi,

Would a spanned volume in OSX work just as well for creating an image of the problem drive as a RAID0?

My problem drive is 3TB, my two spare disks are 2TB and 1.5TB (3.5TB).

I have been advised by support to create a RAW image using diskutility or ddutility.

Many thanks for any replies and help, I have emailed support but figured they may not work weekends.

Corsari
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Re: Creating RAW imgaes

Post by Corsari » Sat Dec 10, 2016 1:35 am

Sure

One disk image is just a file which size is equal than the size of the drive you clone.

So you need a partition/volume of a size large enough to contain such file, no matter how that volume rely on.

BUT BEWARE cloning drives...

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Unless you don't care too much about your data.
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alex4478
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Re: Creating RAW imgaes

Post by alex4478 » Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:12 am

Thanks for the reply.

Is ddutility thorough enough to copy absolutely everything?

Corsari
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Re: Creating RAW imgaes

Post by Corsari » Sat Dec 10, 2016 6:16 am

If the drive is healthy, yes.

Have you checked SMART values of the drive?

Read my guides

Links are in the signature at bottom
Robert
Technical Manager @ Recupero Dati RAID FAsTec (Italy)

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1) What to check BEFORE begin a disk image/clone process [link]
2) Disks that are too slow while imaging/cloning them [link]
3) All my posts on this forum [link]

alex4478
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Re: Creating RAW imgaes

Post by alex4478 » Sat Dec 10, 2016 6:36 am

The SMART values are the wrong end but low enough to make the all the status GREEN.

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Re: Creating RAW imgaes

Post by alex4478 » Sat Dec 10, 2016 1:19 pm

Well I knew it wouldn't be easy, I had started the copy and then got this error message

(com.apple.diskutility error 3.)

And after I got a "status 5" message.

Any ideas what happened there?

I did it within the disk utility.

Would doing from the startup/OS X recovery disk make any difference?

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