You know ssh will compress what goes through its tunnel to begin with, right?
So, you can eliminate at least one command there.. On 10/17/08, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17:29:56 Oct 17, Mike wrote: >> > >> > will work out much faster and better than plain old dd(1). >> > >> > On the other side you have to run >> > >> > # <input> | restore xf - >> > >> > -Girish >> > >> >> whats the <input> going to be? > > Sorry I was wrong. It was meant to be done in one step from the "dump > side". > > This works for me. > > # dump af - /dev/rwd0d | gzip -c - | ssh <hostname> "gzip -d -| > restore rf -" > > Hope it works out for you. > > Thanks. > > -Girish
