[00:12] <Cheri703> how long should it take to dd like 30gb?
[00:23] <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.
[00:24] <Cheri703> o.O I'm going from internal SATA via usb to ide hdd
[00:24] <Cheri703> this is going to take FOREVER
[00:25] <canthus13> I usually just throw stuff like that on when I go to bed.
[00:31] <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.
[00:38] <Cheri703> yay it just finished!!
[00:43] <canthus13> Wow. quick.
[00:44] <canthus13> to be fair, the drive I was talking about was connected to a machine that I suspected of having SATA controller overheating issues.
[00:50] <Cheri703> and mine started LONG before I asked
[00:51]  * canthus13 nods.
[00:54] <Cheri703> alright, off to reinstall, back later
[00:55] <canthus13> have fun.
[02:38] <Cheri703> back up and running :)
[13:30] <paultag> morning y'all
[15:21] <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...
[15:22] <thafreak> dd copies even unused blocks...
[16:11] <thafreak> http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page
[16:29] <canthus13> thafreak: dd has options to not copy unused blocks, though, doesn't it?
[16:30] <canthus13> Oh weird... dd supports EBCDIC.
[16:32] <canthus13> hmm.. maybe it doesn't have the ability to skip unused blocks. coulda sworn I'd seen that option.
[16:34] <canthus13> Oh. it's ddrescue that will do sparse writes.
[17:44] <Unit193> dd gets the bootable flag and all, and if you work around with it a little, you can get it smaller.
[18:17] <thafreak> i know ddrescue has a sparse option...but I think that's only for making img files
[18:18] <thafreak> not sure what it would do disk 2 disk
[18:19]  * canthus13 nods.