I’m writing a program that wraps around dd to try and warn you if you are doing anything stupid. I have thus been giving the man page a good read. While doing this, I noticed that dd supported all the way up to Quettabytes, a unit orders of magnitude larger than all the data on the entire internet.

This has caused me to wonder what the largest storage operation you guys have done. I’ve taken a couple images of hard drives that were a single terabyte large, but I was wondering if the sysadmins among you have had to do something with e.g a giant RAID 10 array.

  • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    so I had to learn how to copy in the background, then write a script to check and display the progress every few seconds

    I hope you learned about terminal multiplexers in the meantime… They make your life much easier in cases like this.