"Ghost" IBM Thinkpad drive

[Jason Clinton]

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On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 12:34, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> I'm currently trying:
> dd if=3D/dev/hda1 bs=3D512 | rsh user at remote.sys cat >image.file

This is correct if you intend to save an image to a file.

dd if=3D/dev/hda | ssh user at remoteIP "dd of=3D/dev/hda1"

would be used to copy one hard drive to another. Gzip's compression
algorithm is extremely light and can be made to be even lighter with the
--fast option. I highly recommend doing that. For your solution that
would mean:

dd if=3D/dev/hda | ssh user at remote "gzip --fast -c > file"

This doesn't compress the exchange but it does compress the storage. If
you have more CPU power on the source you could move the gzip to the
other side:

dd if=3D/dev/hda | gzip --fast -c | ssh user at remote "cat > file"

HTH

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