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dd is crashing after a few hours of transfer

I am trying to clone a external hardrive ( 1.5T ) to a second one ( 3T ) with dd. I am working on Unix and want to create a disk image. Here is the command I am using : dd if=/dev/disk1 ...
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dd copies more data than exists in .img?

I'm trying to dd an .img file over to my micro sd (8 GB). The rom (.img) is 2.66 GB, but in my output of DD (live) it says its transfered 9 GB. I don't get how it's turning a 2 GB image into 9 GB. I'm ...
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dd: How do I know if it's still working?

I've not used dd all that much, but so far it's not failed me yet. Right now, I've had a dd going for over 12 hours - I'm writing an image back to the disk it came from - and I'm getting a little ...