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.
Local file transfer?
I cloned a 1TB+ system a couple of times.
As the Anaconda installer of Fedora Atomic is broken (yes, ironic) I have one system originally meant for tweaking as my “zygote” and just clone, resize, balance and rebase that for new systems.
Remote? 10GB MicroWin 11 LTSC IOT ISO, the least garbage that OS can get.
Also, some leaked stuff 50GB over Bittorrent