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I have to dd a couple of 1TB hard drives. They are taking several hours to clone and I was wondering if there was any way possible of knowing how fast they are going, how much they have done and how long will they take to copy the rest.



All I can see is the terminal with the command running. When I run ps -e at least I know that dd is working from the CPU usage shown, but I have no way of knowing how much it has done or how long it will take to finish.



Kind of makes me crazy.


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Use the program pv for any piped stream to see a live report of data transfered. It can be used for any application using pipes. It is also a great tool for seeing rate of transfer to things like USB, External disks, networked computers.



dd if=infile | pv > outfile


Or for direct copying, just use this:



pv infile > outfile


Example:



sudo pv /dev/sda1 > /home/user/sda1.ext4.img

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