CCC and Failing External Hard Drive

[alex.ranee]

(MBP 2018 15” running Monterey)

If anyone has any knowledge of CCC/backing up a failing hard drive please help

I believe my external hard drive is beginning to fail, so I am attempting to back it up to a new one before it fails completely (i know, I should have done it sooner..)

The original HD still mounts, but is extremely slow to load, open files or transfer files.

Cloning with Disk Utility does not work, so I was recommended Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive. I have both the source and destination drives connected to the MBP through a USB to USB-C adapter. The new drive was formatted to match the source drive (Mac OS Extended Journaled).

Issue 1: It will run ok for a while then the source volume will eject and I have to unplug and start the backup again where it left off. I know this is going to happen when the transfer rate drops to 0mb/s like in the attached screenshot. Why does it do this?

Issue 2: It has been 2 hours and it has copied about 80gb out of 633gb I need copied. Is there a way to speed it up or do I just have to wait it out?

 

[Fishrrman]

"It will run ok for a while then the source volume will eject and I have to unplug and start the backup again where it left off."

If the source drive has problems, this could happen.
Just do... what you have to do... reconnect and try to continue.

"It has been 2 hours and it has copied about 80gb out of 633gb I need copied. Is there a way to speed it up or do I just have to wait it out?"

I suggest you "wait it out".
Again... just try to keep going.