On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Neko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have found a really dirty way of going around this, > so im fishing for advices on finding a reliable way > to dd over simple ip network with the generic bsd. > > could this be done in a straight pipe ? > > i have an ftp on the generic bsd, containing data, this > bsd system is on a multiple os drive. i have no choice to > dd, since multiple partition got updated out of hand, no way > to single track specific updated folders. *well actually yes, its > the dirty way stipulated above* > > since my partitions have 16% free on all systems, i cant tarball the > drive sent it to target machine and uncompress, > > anyays, if you have suggestion on opensource pkgs, services i could open, > or any bright idea i would like to hear them
You could easily use a few pipes, dd and the built-in netcatand add some compression too if you wanted.