Creating and restoring image backups

[J Bickhard]

Okay, I went into the teminal and typed in

sudo dd if=/media/disk-1 of=/media/disk/disk.img

It said

dd: reading `/media/disk-1': Is a directory
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00120255 s, 0.0 kB/s

Then I was back at the prompt, I tried to close the window, but it
said that the windows was running a process, so I figured it was
running in the background. 12 hours later, I come back to find
disk.img on my external drive, but it has a size of 0. Nothing. Zippo.

What did I do wrong THIS time?

Jake (dats me)




On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
> J Bickhard wrote:
>> I couldn't figure out the command-line option, so I just copied all of
>> the files with the file browser. It said it would take 5 hours to
>> finish. Why so slow?
>>
>> Jake (dats me)
>>
>>
> Could be any number of reasons.  I know when I had bad blocks the copy
> process was painful.  Also, if you are coping from within XP then the
> time is usually wrong.  Has been for me on more than one occasion.  If
> you are coping from a Ubuntu then the transfer rate should be on the
> progress window if it's low then odds are that the system is negotiating
> some bottle neck.
>
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