31 Aug
2005
31 Aug
'05
10:01
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:10 +0200, Albert wrote:
Can anyone suggest a way of copying this image set to another hard disk or DVD that will not take forever to do? If possible with a progress bar – indicating how much files there are and how much files still need to be copied.
dd if=/dev/<current device> of=/dev/<backup device> make sure <backup device> is >= <current device> Look at dd_rescue (ddrescue RPM) if you encounter bad blocks on your HDD. -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Jone's Motto: Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.