METHOD AND UTILITY FOR COPYING FILES FROM A FAULTY DISK

• US 20090094293A1
• Filed: 10/04/2007
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chernega, Gary J.
• Granted Patent: US 7,984,023 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0727 in a storage system, e.g. in a DASD or network based storage system drivers for digital recording or reproducing units G06F3/06; circuits for error detection or correction within digital recording or reproducing units G11B20/18; for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0775 Content or structure details of the error report, e.g. specific table structure, specific error fields
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/16 File or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems

Abstract

The present invention provides a faulty disk copy utility. A method for copying files in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining a list of files to be copied from a first location to a second location; initiating copying of a file from the list; logging an identifier of the file in a log file if an error occurs during the copying; and repeating the copying and logging for each file in the list of files; wherein the copying of the files from the list does not end if an error occurs during the copying.

Claims

1. A method for copying files, comprising:

obtaining a list of files to be copied from a first location to a second location;

initiating copying of a file from the list;

logging an identifier of the file in a log file if an error occurs during the copying; and

repeating the copying and logging for each file in the list of files;

wherein the copying of the files from the list does not end if an error occurs during the copying.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location comprises a damaged hard drive, and wherein the second location comprises a replacement hard drive.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the log file provides a listing of all non-recoverable files in the list of files.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the error comprises a read/write error.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a subsequent copying process using the log file as the list of files.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

running a file recovery utility against the files listed in the log file.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the file recovery utility accepts the identifier of each file in the log file as input.

8. A faulty disk copy utility for copying files, comprising:

a system for obtaining a list of files to be copied from a first location to a second location;

a system for initiating copying of a file from the list; and

a system for logging an identifier of the file in a log file if an error occurs during the copying;

wherein the copying and logging are repeated for each file in the list of files, and wherein the copying of the files from the list does not end if an error occurs during the copying.

9. The faulty disk copy utility of claim 8, wherein the first location comprises a damaged hard drive, and wherein the second location comprises a replacement hard drive.

10. The faulty disk copy utility of claim 8, wherein the log file provides a listing of all non-recoverable files in the list of files.

11. The faulty disk copy utility of claim 8, wherein the error comprises a read/write error.

12. The faulty disk copy utility of claim 8, further comprising:

a system for performing a subsequent copying process using the log file as the list of files.

13. The faulty disk copy utility of claim 8, further comprising:

a system for running a file recovery utility against the files listed in the log file.

14. The faulty disk copy utility of claim 8, wherein the file recovery utility accepts the identifier of each file in the log file as input.

15. A program product stored on a computer readable medium, which when executed, copies files, the computer readable medium comprising program code for:

obtaining a list of files to be copied from a first location to a second location;

initiating copying of a file from the list;

logging an identifier of the file in a log file if an error occurs during the copying; and

repeating the copying and logging for each file in the list of files;

wherein the copying of the files from the list does not end if an error occurs during the copying.

16. The program product of claim 15, wherein the first location comprises a damaged hard drive, and wherein the second location comprises a replacement hard drive.

17. The program product of claim 15, wherein the log file provides a listing of all non-recoverable files in the list of files.

18. The program product of claim 15, wherein the error comprises a read/write error.

19. The program product of claim 15, further comprising program code for:

performing a subsequent copying process using the log file as the list of files.

20. The program product of claim 15, further comprising:

running a file recovery utility against the files listed in the log file.

21. The program product of claim 20, wherein the file recovery utility accepts the identifier of each file in the log file as input.

22. A method for deploying an application for copying files, comprising:

providing a computer infrastructure being operable to;

obtain a list of files to be copied from a first location to a second location;

initiate copying of a file from the list;

log an identifier of the file in a log file if an error occurs during the copying; and

repeat the copying and logging for each file in the list of files;

wherein the copying of the files from the list does not end if an error occurs during the copying.