[Nottingham] HDD cloning via LAN

[Martin]

Simon Huggins wrote:
> Salut NLUG!
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 04:53:37PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
>>On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 04:32:27PM +0100, Martin wrote:
[...]
>>Are you sure you wouldn't rather use tar?
> 
> 
>>(cd / && tar cf - .) | ssh laptop2 "(cd / && tar xf -)"
> 
> 
> Actually if you do do this expect fun things to happen as you try to
> copy proc (bad) and try to replace things like /lib on the other
> machine.

Also, I'm wanting to copy over the partition tables, linux, and windozy 
stuff... Hence "dd" rather than "tar".


I was wondering if there was anything faster than "ssh" to squirt the 
stuff over the 100Mbit/s lan. I guess there's always "ssh -C"...

I'll take a look at netcat.


Others must have to do this on occasion... (;-|)

The laptop supports PXE-2.0 boot. Is there anything cool I can do using 
that?...


Thanks,
Martin


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