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Can I resume an interrupted disk image done with dd?

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Mar 15, 20269439 views
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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 to transfer my to an image. But the problem is: During the process, CPU and HDD temperatures raise and the process horribly slo…

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I guess you could use the dd options seek and skip with the same numbers. Another way would be to use the program 'pv' which can simply pipe data, but can also rate limit that, so then you might control your CPU/HDD temperatures.

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