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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Copying data efficiently
From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
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On Sat, 17 May 2014, at 8:46 am, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> a) Unlike other commands, pv will give you a progress bar so that you =
know how=20
> long your back up is taking.

I've been using ddrescue recently - by default it seems to be faster =
than plain old regular dd.

I assume it must be possible to adjust the parameters (blocksize?) to =
speed dd up, but I just want to run the command and not have to bother =
tinkering.

On dumb blind copies, I'm finding ddrescue about 3x or 4x faster than =
dd, I would estimate.

Stroller.