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I am going to reinstall my system and I want to backup it first.
There is an 80 GB HDD with Ubuntu and 750 GB HDD on which I want to put image. So, I run a live CD and use dd
to transfer my sda
to an image.
But the problem is: During the process, CPU and HDD temperatures raise and the process horribly slows down. I've interrupted dd
with 25 GB cloned. What should I do now?
Is there a way to resume dd
? Or a way to do copy in portions? Or, maybe there is a better software than dd
to clone a HDD?
Well, the problem is solved. Although overheating was harmful, largest performance increase was achieved with bigger block size/bs (several megabytes). Anyway, skipping/seeking helped too. – user81420 – 2011-06-21T04:25:33.390
I get exactly the same amount of info copied.
root@fe:/dev# dd\n if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc\n dd: reading `/dev/sdb': Input/output error\n 48583648+0 records in\n 48583648+0 records out\n 24874827776 bytes (25 GB) copied, 5235.18 s, 4.8 MB/s\n
I was thinking about using the-noerror
option. Does that make sense? Thank you. – Trylks – 2013-07-13T15:56:51.257