[Gllug] Recovering ISOs from a FUBARed HDD

[Pete Ryland]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:09:55PM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> If it's a trusted network then you could use netcat to pull it across.
> The current Debian Sarge CD has nc symlinked to busybox.
> 
> On the machine with the files:
> 	nc -l -p 12345 -c "cat file"
> 
> On another machine:
> 	nc machine1 12345 > file
> 
> Netcat on the first machine will quit after finishing the cat and 
> closing the connection.
> 
> It's not secure or 100% reliable, but can get you out of a jam when 
> you don't have SSH available. Check md5sum or file sizes afterwards 
> would be recommended.

There's no reason it shouldn't be reliable.

BTW, one can also pipe tar or anything to netcat in the same way.

Pete
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