Terminal command to copy files and skip bad/corrupt ones?

[edokid]

Hey everyone,

I have a harddrive that's failing. I can only access the command line and I need to backup everything to my USB hard drive. Problem is some files are corrupt, so I'm doing cp - R /source /destination but as soon as it hits a bad file, it says file not found, or some sort of error and stops. Is there any way at all that I can tell it to copy a folder and all it's sub folders, and if it hits a bad file, just keep on going and skip it? Would make it so much easier.. thanks!

[sdousley]

you could maybe use some sort of bash script and traverse the file structure in /source and copy all files to /destination.

If you dont need the same structure, then something like:

find /source -type f -iname '*' -exec cp {} /destination \;

should do.

Otherwise, you could run some sort of find that will return the directory structure, and then do a similar find to above, but only on that subdirectory, and cp the files.