On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Nathan Rackliffe wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Alberto Treviño <albe...@byu.edu> wrote: >> 3. If things fail, yes, tar sucks since you have to start over. But, as to >> progress, you can use df to find out how much has been written on the other >> end. If you are a mega geek, you can look in /proc for the number of bytes >> written to disk by the tar process too. > > Another tool I've used to keep track of progress is pv > (http://linux.die.net/man/1/pv) It's not on every system, but it sure > is nice when doing a full disk clone to see how far into that TB you > are.
Thank you for sharing pv. That was new to me, and totally cool. --Dave -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
