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Sorry, maybe try to swap -d and -p parameter imgclone -p -d <imagename>.img

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Depends on the access speed of your SD card, destination card, Raspberry Pi version and maybe other programs running on the Pi.

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It is not as simple as 64Gb/66.3Mb because after creating the .img file it runs a file copy command. This means all files will be copied individually, each file generates overhead because it needs to be created / space assigned in the new file system. If you have a lot of small files there will be more overhead than the actual copying takes. Some USB drives/SD cards are more optimized for copying large files like photos and movies. But I must admit 4h for a 16GB card is quite long.

If you want high speed, remove the card use something like dd or Win32Diskimager.

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Never had any problems with Win32Diskimager when reading a card.
You could also try CloneDisk if you don't like the Win32Diskimager.

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I am sitting here at 4:43 AM Copying an 8gb sd card to a USB drive. Its been over 3:30 hours. Can II just stop it in the middle? just shutdown?

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Yes you can stop and shutdown but the image will just not be complete.

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Yes you can stop and shutdown but the image will just not be complete.

Thanks I did that. May be it has to do with the non-discript Chinese sd card I got along with my Genesis flash cart.

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Not the most elegant solution, but if you have a rough estimate of your current file-system size, you van keep running clear && df -h continuously. You'll see the 'Used space' change continuously for your plugged in device, and check that against the file-system size from before.

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That's what the -p command line parameter does automatically to show copy progress.

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That's what the -p command line parameter does automatically to show copy progress.

I tried running imgclone -dp <imagename>.img with a sudo vairant and separating the flags, but it didn't work for me that way
Is it that the flags are to be used separately (as in -p instead of -d)?

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Yes, like imgclone -d -p <imagename>.img

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Yes, like imgclone -d -p <imagename>.img

I tried imgclone -d -p test.img (while in /media//<drive_name>), but I get a Invalid argument test.img error.

Should I make a new issue instead?

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Sorry, maybe try to swap -d and -p parameter imgclone -p -d <imagename>.img

Yes, this was accepted!

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