[Nottingham] HDD cloning via LAN

Peter Chang Peter.Chang at nottingham.ac.uk
Tue Apr 27 16:48:27 BST 2004


On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Martin wrote:
> Question:
> 
> Given two laptops, what is the best way to clone the hdd from one onto 
> the other using their LAN connections?
> 
> That is, what mini-distro or utility is there to do:
> dd if=ip-of-laptop1/dev/hda of=ip-of-laptop2/dev/hda

Try netcat (netcat.sourceforge.net).

Peter



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