I use dd on a regular basis to copy disks on FreeBSD, you *need* to specify a block size otherwise it will *always* be slow.
In general, I just choose 16MB.
Example:
# dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=16M
Using a variety of WD disks, I get about 100MB/s transfer rates.
I just tested your command, and it's also very slow on my system, even with a larger block size.
A "normal" dd without pipes to gzip and split works fine.
Using:
# dd if=/dev/ad1 bs=16M | gzip -c > /data/tmp/img
Is also very slow. If I look at top, I notice that gzip is using 100% CPU.
Note that this is on an Intel Atom system, so that's not particularly fast, but the point is that the problem
may be in your pipies to gzip or split and not in dd.
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I would like to bump it up a bit but this is not an average dd command. It's using gZip and I'm not sure where to place the numbers like bs=1M to this appending type dd command.
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Code:
dd if=/dev/ad4s1 bs=16M | gzip -c | split -b 3500m - /12/PcBSD-Partiton-dd-By-FreeBSD.gz.