I'm trying to capture a live system with a pipable image going to stout,then apply from stin which in turn writes to a disk. I thought this would be cool as you could clone a live system to an arbitrary sized disk.
Here is what I'm running from cmd on a Windows 10 x64 machine:
The problem is that the pipable WIM format includes all the file checksums before the file data is sent (in order to be similar enough to the regular format for everything to work without having to code everything very differently), so all the file checksums all have to calculated beforehand; and there's no progress message for that.
So your command will work, but you'll just have to wait a while, with the amount of time depending on your source data size and storage speed, before anything else seems to happen.
I'll look into adding a progress message for the file checksumming when I have time.
OK cool, thanks for that.I'll try again and just leave it and see what happens.
Just to double check, when I run the command Windows disk read activity goes high - which I expect - but there's no write activity on the destination drive. Should I expect activity relatively quickly?