slow dd backup on ntfs drive

I experienced some very slow backup (days) using Knoppix and an
external hard drive (NTFS). I wanted to backup a whole hard drive so
fat32 was not good enough (since files cannot be larger than 4Gb).

However, when I plugged a fat32 external hard drive, the speed was
fine. I thus backed up my hard drive using dd and storing the result
into different files of 1Gb

Backing up to archive split into 1GB chunks:

dd if=/dev/hda | split -b 1024m -d - hda.

Restoring:

cat hda.* | dd of=/dev/hda

Arno

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