Restoring img file to eMMC

[GloriousCoffee]

Hi

I ran update/upgrade on my debian installation on eMMC yesterday which resulted in the system not booting anymore.
I have a backup image file of the eMMC which I did with gnome-disks but after booting a system from USB and trying to restore the image to eMMC the process is stuck on 0.0%. First I thought it might be calculating something, so I left the computer on all night, but when I woke up it was still at 0.0%. Is there perhaps some other way to restore the image to eMMC ? I don't have the USB->eMMC adapter unfortunately, otherwise I would have tried it to. Installing LUKS debian was a bit of a hassle, so inputs are appreciated if I can get it up and running again without having to go through the whole installation again.

[tophneal]

try using dd in terminal instead of something like Gnome Disks.

[GloriousCoffee]

I'm trying with dd now. Doing: dd if=/pathtoimg of=/dev/mmcblk1

I can see in 'top' that dd is running, but the program isn't outputing anything. Similar to how gnome-disks did (could also see it running with load in top).

Never used dd before, is it normal for it to not have any output during operation ?

[GloriousCoffee]

Nvm my question, I aborted it and saw 40gb copied so I guess its working quietly.

[reptar]

add status=progress in your dd command next time so you can get some feedback. Without status=, there is no feedback(unless you issue a -USR1 systemcall in another terminal)
dd if=/pathtoimg of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress

[GloriousCoffee]

Thanks ya'all

Restoring with dd worked like a charm.