Transferring disks with partimage

[Joep L. Blom]

Fred Roller wrote:

> 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.
> 
Fred & Siggy,
Thanks for the reply. I agree with Siggy that dd over the network is 
dangerous moreover I don't want the same partition size on both drives. 
The whole procedure is meant to store one 20 GB disk and one 80 GB disk 
each on a separate partition on a 1 TB disk, well at least all the ext3 
partitions. Of course the NTFS and FAT32 partitions will come on their 
own partition. I was thinking along the line of using partimage-server 
to move the images ( of each partition) to the destination system. 
However that doesn't solve my wish to concatenate the smaller partitions.
I'm still looking for a way to do that with a minimal of effort (!).
Joep