On Sat, 17 May 2014, at 8:46 am, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > a) Unlike other commands, pv will give you a progress bar so that you know > how > 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.
