Aaron Cossey wrote at about 14:13:26 +0200 on Tuesday, July 23, 2013: > Sorry but all those pipes are going to slow the transfer > needlessly.
While I too use SIGINFO, I doubt the extra pv pipe will slow anything down given that disk read/write is by FAR the rate limiting step... > To see > the progress of a running dd process, just send it SIGINFO : > > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M & ddpid=$! > kill -USR1 $ddpid > > Aaron Cossey > aaron.cos...@gmail.com > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Tyler > > > > -- > > "In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one > > should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, > > contentedly, even happily wrong." > > -- John Kenneth Galbraith > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
