On 21:28:56 Oct 15, Neko wrote: > Good day to all of you, > > 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, >
dd(1) is not a good idea. If you want to back up across the n/w, then dump(8) with ssh(8) may be interesting. # dump af - | ssh ... will work out much faster and better than plain old dd(1). On the other side you have to run # <input> | restore xf - -Girish
