Hi, I can only say something about some small parts of your questions:
[email protected]: > [...] This means I want to clone a lot of USB sticks, including the > persistent volume! Since this may be a growing use case, it would be > nice to have such a feature in the Tails Installer eventually (maybe > along the lines of > https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/backups/#index7h2), but until then > the solution seems to be something like dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY, > sdX being the original prepared Tails USB stick with a preconfigured > persistent volume, and sdY being the USB stick to clone to (obviously > at least as large in size as sdX). As far as I can see the functionality you want is exactly the same as the one described in the section you linked to (https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/backups/#index7h2), even though your use case is completely different. So it is quite possible that this gets implemented some day. > [...] > I have tried this successfully once (with two USB sticks of the > exact same model and size) and although it was painfully slow, I > guess I can live with that in lack of a better solution. Using the 'bs' option for blocksize with dd should make the process a lot faster. Using dd ... bs=16K means that the program copies blocks of 16 thousand bytes in a single step instead of the default value of 512 bytes. The optimal value depends on your hardware configuration, but using anything between 16k and 16M will probably be way faster than using the default value. If you try a few values and compare the output of dd it should be easy to find a good enough value. Cheers! _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
