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Alternatives to Active Disk Image to create a RAW disk image on Android or at least MacOC (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by coolak-fantom@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Hi guys. Sometimes, I need to do regular RAW backups of some of my externally used 2'5" SSDs. Active Disk Image is a perfect tool for that. The thing with it, is that the process takes the whole day, and I can't do it on my main computer (I have only one Windows device, which is a desktop).

Ideally, I would like to find something with the aforementioned functionality for Android, so that I launch the app on it, connect both the disk that needs to be backed up and another disk for storing that backup. And I could leave it for whatever time it needs. It doesn't even make a singe noise, and I rarely use it.

If that's not an option, at least I need an alternative for MacOS then. I guess I could turn off sleep and leave it for a day, but it's undesirable, since I also use it regularly every day.

Any Android solutions please?

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[–] plsuh@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your problem is not the software, it’s the USB. You’re clearly using either an old pc or an old disk drive with a USB 1.x connection, which is why you’re getting 10-12 Mbps. Figure out where the bottleneck is and stop blaming the software.

[–] coolak-fantom@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not blaming the software! It's just what I have for now (a usb container). All I want is to use Android to perform the required operation.... So that I may not care about the time it takes.