Make life extremely easy while installing and restoring compressed disk image files on the go.It is used to create bootable USB device for the various Linux distributions using the ISO image.
Writes disk image files to removable media e.g.Its ability to compress disk image files on the go helps to significantly reduce the file size of backups.Provides an easy way to drag and drop to backup and restore.dd Utility offers the ability to backup and restore IMG files to memory cards and disks.
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It is partially cross-platform that is it works on UNIX like operating Linux Ubuntu and Apple’s Mac OS X. This article is about a variant of DD command-line utility with Graphical User Interface (GUI) i.e dd Utility. The name of the utility i.e DD seems to have been extracted from IBM’s Job Control Language (JCL) where it appears in a number of command statements. It performs the conversions to and from ASCII to EBCDIC, furthermore, it performs the byte order swapping as well. DD utility can copy and convert simple files, device drivers (e.g for CD ROM, LAN, Speakers, HDD etc) and can access boot sector information that is why it can be used to prepare bootable backup and restore images. DD stands for Data Description and the utility empowers the user to copy and convert files but it is a command-line utility without any Graphical User Interface (GUI).
The legacy DD is a command-line utility for UNIX like operating systems.