On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:38:13 -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brent Nordick wrote: > <snip/> > > Anyone have a good recomendation for how to go about > > this? > <snip/> > > I've seen people doing this task using 'dd' and the magic of 'nc' or > netcat. I haven't done it myself, but it basically is piping out the the > output from dd onto the network using netcat and receving from the other > end from netcat and piping into dd. > > box ---> dd | nc | -------network------- | nc | dd --> box > > It doesn't look too hard to do, maybe even easier if you use something > like Knoppix. > > Some walkthroughs to look at: > http://www.ebruni.it/docs/clone_linux/t1.htm?print=1 > http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html
The last time I tried this it hung somewhere in the middle. It turns out nc is not multi-threaded and it can get itself stuck if you try to force too much data through it. It would probably be easier and faster to just put the "bad" drive into the good computer and do the dd thing from there. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
