"Ghost" IBM Thinkpad drive

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Rob Becker wrote:

> You should be able to rsync directly to the remote drive in question.  I
> think you will likely need to have an rsync server running on that
> server.  I think I may have done it using nfs, but like I said earlier,
> it has been a while.  I'm pretty sure that G4U is doing what I have
> described using some shell scripts.  I'll dig through my links database
> and see if I can get you some of the links I used when I did this.

One problem:  The disk in question is an NTFS partition, so I need a 
true 'clone' of the partition, not an mirror of it (as typically created 
by rsync).  That doesn't mean rsync won't work, I just don't know how to 
make it do that.

I'm currently trying:
dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=512 | rsh user at remote.sys cat >image.file

This seems to be working (it worked with a small text file, but I'll 
have to verify the image created is valid), but is only running at about 
1 MB/s (which I guess could be all the faster the poor IBM laptop can 
spit data out to the network).

The laptop seems CPU bound, so attempts at gzipping the data in-transit 
seem to just slow everything down.  I'll try compressing the image data 
once it's made it over to a newer system with a bit more 'umph'.

With a 10G drive, I guess I'll find out how well this worked in about 3 
hours. :-/

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net