A smarter netcat?

Today I restored data from the hard disk of the previous laptop of a friend of mine, who had her laptop burn out (almost literally) a few months ago. To do so, my usual first task is to back up the whole content of the drive itself, so that even if I screw up with the data there is no data loss on the original drive. Having more than 2TB addressable on this workstation certainly helps. Now, I¡¦m really not sure whether the copy operation was network-bound or disk-bound, and if it was disk wh

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