Help! Backup using CCC

[conamor]

Hi,

I came across an issue where I was moving the folder called "Documents" from external Hard drive to the same external hard drive but to another folder. I had to cancel since this is not where I wanted to move it. Then I realized that the whole "Documents" folder was gone and only part of it was remaining.

Good thing I have a backup. I am trying to use CCC to copy the "Documents" folder located under the user (from an external HDD) to my internal hard drive. there is 800GB data and it "stops" at 1.70GB but it's still counting the time and saying comparing files on the source and destination. I see no progress... Is it doing it in the background?

Thanks

 

[organicCPU]

You don't need CCC to copy individual files or folders from your backup. Just Drag'n'Drop is fine.
https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/restoring-non-system-files

Depending on your settings, it might be that your folder from the backup is merged with your folder you're writing to, thus not every file needs to be written and therefore you won't see any progress. I suggest waiting for some error report or for task completion, then compare your source and destination folder.

 

[conamor]

You don't need CCC to copy individual files or folders from your backup. Just Drag'n'Drop is fine.
https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/restoring-non-system-files

Depending on your settings, it might be that your folder from the backup is merged with your folder you're writing to, thus not every file needs to be written and therefore you won't see any progress. I suggest waiting for some error report or for task completion, then compare your source and destination folder.

I know, but I have to use CCC because that hard drive has bad sectors and CCC tells me which file was not copied. So I can grab them from an older backup after....

 

[organicCPU]

I know, but I have to use CCC because that hard drive has bad sectors and CCC tells me which file was not copied. So I can grab them from an older backup after....

So you checked "Find and replace corrupted files" to try to rescue a backup from a failing disk!?
That could be a good reason for "no progress". IMO, CCC is excellent for backup, but not a rescuing failing drives tool.

If the data is really important to you, I'd cancel the copying, eject the defective backup volume and take it to a professional recovery service. If you can live with data loss, you might await if CCC comes to an end or try the data recovery by yourself. Recently we had a thread about rescuing a drive: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/can-i-save-this-external-drive.2053566/

Good luck!