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submitted 2 months ago by data1701d@startrek.website to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I routinely do 1-4TB images of SSDs before making major changes to the disk. Run fstrim on all partitions and pipe dd output through zstd before writing to disk and they shrink to actually used size or a bit smaller. Largest ever backup was probably ~20T cloned from one array to another over 40/56GbE, the deltas after that were tiny by comparison.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm currently in the process of transferring about 50 TB from one zpool to another (locally), so I can destroy and recreate it.

I've downloaded a few torrents that were around 5 TB each, they're PS4 and Xbox 360 game collections.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

As a single file? Likely 20GB iso.
As a collective job, 3TB of videos between hard drives for Jellyfin.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

20TB (out of 21TB usable), a second 6x6TB zfs raidz2 server as my send target.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

While I haven't personally had to move a data center I imagine that would be a pretty big transfer. Probably not dd though.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I can't imagine how nerve-wracking it would be to run dd on something like that lol. I still don't trust myself to copy a USB stick with my unimportant bullshit on it with dd, let alone a server with anything important on it!

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 1 points 2 months ago

I think it would be my whole broken manjaro install, I just used dd to make a copy so I could work on it later lol. About 500 gigs

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