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> On November 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> wrote: > > Unfortunately, GNU dd does not have a --progress option but last > time I looked, it responded to signal USR1 by writing its > current stats on stderr. So you can use ps to find out the PID > of your dd(1) process then kill -USR1 <PID> from time to time to > see how far along it is. >
pv -tpreb /dev/source | dd of=/dev/destination bs=8M conv=notrunc
> If you must stop the copy, dd options seek= and skip= can be > used to restart from where you stopped (as opposed to restarting > from the first block). > > conv=noerror could be useful to skip over bad sectors. But make > sure that when dd cannot read a block from the input file, it > does write a block to the output file. Otherwise, the source and > destination would desynchronise and the copy would be unusable. > > Karl has mentioned recoverdm. Sounds promising. > > -- > André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> > Thousands of verified email addresses available from bugs.debian.org. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 20131112144029.GC6159@aym.net2.nerim.net > |