Transferring disks with partimage

[Joep L. Blom]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> Following my question of 07/12/09 I would like to know if anybody has 
>> experience with transferring partitions over the network to another system.
>> As I wrote I want to transfer partitions (> 10) to another system on one 
>> disk. I found I can use partimage to make an imagefile and transfer it 
>> either directly or indirectly to the other system.
>> However, I have the following questions:
>> 1.	 When I restore the image do I need an unformatted partition?
>> 2.	Can I combine several partition images into one restored image?
>> I hope somebody has experience with it. Googling I didn't found relevant 
>> information.
>> Joep
> 
> 	I would use DD to transfer your partitions. I expect partimage uses DD.
> 
> 	It will look like this:
> 
>  $ dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=2048 conv=notrunc
> 
> 	This will quickly send everything in /dev/sda2 to sdb2 and it works fine.
> 
> 
> 73 Karl
> 
> 
Karl,
Thanks, however, it has to be transferred to another system and as far 
as I know does dd not work over a network.
Joep