"Ghost" IBM Thinkpad drive

david nicol whatever at davidnicol.com
Wed May 19 06:20:51 CDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:53, Jason Clinton wrote:

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

I have this idea that ssh does some compression as it encrypts.  I
think I am confusing it with PGP.

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david nicol
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