| Cheri703 | how long should it take to dd like 30gb? | 00:12 |
|---|---|---|
| canthus13 | Cheri703: depends on the drives and the interface you're using. dd'ing to a SATA drive via USB 2.0, it took me about 3 hours to get 40GB. | 00:23 |
| Cheri703 | o.O I'm going from internal SATA via usb to ide hdd | 00:24 |
| Cheri703 | this is going to take FOREVER | 00:24 |
| canthus13 | I usually just throw stuff like that on when I go to bed. | 00:25 |
| Cheri703 | well, I wasn't thinking it'd take that long :( my desktop has been having weird issues lately, so I want to reinstall completely, but I want it backed up just in case I miss anything. | 00:31 |
| Cheri703 | yay it just finished!! | 00:38 |
| canthus13 | Wow. quick. | 00:43 |
| canthus13 | to be fair, the drive I was talking about was connected to a machine that I suspected of having SATA controller overheating issues. | 00:44 |
| Cheri703 | and mine started LONG before I asked | 00:50 |
| * canthus13 nods. | 00:51 | |
| Cheri703 | alright, off to reinstall, back later | 00:54 |
| canthus13 | have fun. | 00:55 |
| Cheri703 | back up and running :) | 02:38 |
| paultag | morning y'all | 13:30 |
| thafreak | Cheri703: fyi, check out fsarchiver (i think that's what it's called) instead of dd next time you're doing a backup | 15:21 |
| thafreak | dumps a filesystem to a tar like archive | 15:21 |
| thafreak | lets you restore to a different filesystem too if you want... | 15:21 |
| thafreak | dd copies even unused blocks... | 15:22 |
| thafreak | http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page | 16:11 |
| canthus13 | thafreak: dd has options to not copy unused blocks, though, doesn't it? | 16:29 |
| canthus13 | Oh weird... dd supports EBCDIC. | 16:30 |
| canthus13 | hmm.. maybe it doesn't have the ability to skip unused blocks. coulda sworn I'd seen that option. | 16:32 |
| canthus13 | Oh. it's ddrescue that will do sparse writes. | 16:34 |
| Unit193 | dd gets the bootable flag and all, and if you work around with it a little, you can get it smaller. | 17:44 |
| thafreak | i know ddrescue has a sparse option...but I think that's only for making img files | 18:17 |
| thafreak | not sure what it would do disk 2 disk | 18:18 |
| * canthus13 nods. | 18:19 | |
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