Re: disk I/O error

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dovydas Sankauskas wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have an external USB HDD, which I wanted to use as a temporary
> storage for my personal data while I clean up my local hdd. And while
> moving files from local hdd to external hdd, it stopped responding. I
> tried xfs_repair, but no luck.
> 
> Any insight on what has happened 

Look no further than your $SUBJECT :)

> and what are my chances to restore
> data?

Which disk died, original or backup?

In any case to recover as best you can from the dying disk, try
dd_rescue to image every readable sector, then run xfs_repair on that
image and mount it loopback to get to what's left.

-Eric