I had an old drive begin to fail and my backups were no good apparently. I got a new drive larger than the failed one and was able to ddrescue it over, with bad/missing superblocks of course. Through some fiddling around I was able to mount the new drive, but there were errors of course displayed on a directory listing. I began to copy what I could, and I'm assuming subdirectories had issues, because it errored mid-copy on the new drive and the partition quit responding. I cannot get xfs_repair to salvage the new drive saying to secondary superblocks were found. What are my options here? I suppose I could ddrescue off the old drive again, which unfortunately took over a day last time, but even then how do I proceed? Running testdisk/photorec would be a nightmare.

I had an old drive beginning to fail and my backups were no good apparently.
I got a new drive larger than the failed one and was able to ddrescue it over, with bad/missing superblocks of course.
Through some fiddling around I was able to mount the new drive, but there were errors of course displayed on a directory listing. I began to copy what I could, and I'm assuming subdirectories had issues, because it errored mid-copy on the new drive and the partition stopped responding.
I cannot get xfs_repair to salvage the new drive saying to secondary superblocks were found.

What are my options here?

I suppose I could ddrescue off the old drive again, which unfortunately took over a day last time, but even then how do I proceed? Running testdisk/photorec would be a nightmare.