safecopy - Data Recovery VS UpdraftPlus

I personally prefer safecopy. It can do a coarse read first, then try more reads on damaged sectors. If you have a spinning rust drive that you had to put in the freezer to get it to work, that lets you get most data out without wasting repeated effort on unreadable sectors. Also works great for CDs! Source: about 2 years ago

Never tried myself, but there are tools like ddrescue and safecopy that try to grab what they can. Source: about 2 years ago

Http://safecopy.sourceforge.net/ (there are almost certainly better sources than sourceforge, but I'd try to avoid any windows stuff that is wildly different). Source: almost 3 years ago

Then use something like http://safecopy.sourceforge.net/ or http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/ or ddrescue to try to get the rest if you need it. Source: about 3 years ago

First, run a site backup -- both the database and static files on the server (e.g., theme files, image uploads). Ideally you'll also know or figure out how to restore the site with said backup. The plugin UpdraftPlus has a free tier you might start with. I use it on a personal site to run daily backups automatically, and have used it on employer websites in the past. You should be running daily backups if you... Source: 10 months ago