Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 10:07:51 +0100 on Tuesday, July 23, 2013: > On 2013-07-23 10:02, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M > > For those not familiar with dd, it doesn't display progress when working. > And dd'ing a 2 TB drive can take a long time. If you want progress, use this: > > dd dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M | pv | dd of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M > > pv is great. >
Another alternative is to occasionally do: kill -USR1 <pid of dd process> from another terminal screen which will print the progress at that point... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
