Transferring disks with partimage

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Fred Roller wrote:
> 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"
> 

	How does ssh work to a partition that is not mounted? I do not think so....


73 Karl



> 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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