Transferring disks with partimage

[Fred Roller]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 06:35 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > 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
> > 
>         As I think about it this must be the case because you can easy
> have the
> case of going from /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda1 which will not fly. Sorry.

DD will work over the network.  Ensuring neither drive is mounted, the
command would look something like this:

dd if=/dev/sda1 |ssh user at destination.pc "dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4028
conv=notrunc"

sda1 = whatever source device
sdb1 = whatever destination drive

if you want to do the whole drive then drop the numbers (sda ->sdb)

this takes awhile (5-25 Mb/s is the range I have seen).
Hope this helps.  Check the archives, we just discussed this subject and
proceedures for both dd and rsync are there.

Hope this helps.

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