Check Progress of Disk Dump (dd)

1. Open a new terminal window
2. Execute ps ax | grep dd to find PID of dd (e.g. 5068) (now referred to as Y)
3. Execute sudo kill -USR1 Y
4. Look back at the original terminal window to view progress

Alternatively, if you only have one instance of dd running (if you're not sure, this is probably the case), you can simply enter into the terminal sudo killall -USR1 dd without checking your PID.

Tip: You can have it automatically display progress by executing watch -n 10 kill -USR1 Y

Simple way:

1. press Ctrl+t in the Terminal dd is running in

Complicated way:

1. Open a new terminal window
2. Execute ps ax | grep dd to find PID of dd (it's the number on the far left, i.e.5068) (now referred to as Y)
3. Execute sudo kill -INFO Y
4. Look back at the original terminal window to view progress

Alternatively, if you only have one instance of dd running (if you're not sure, this is probably the case), you can simply enter into the terminal sudo killall -INFO dd without checking your PID.