Re: Final word on Drive "ghosting" apps for Linux?

"Wesley J. Landaker" <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:46:06 -0600
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On Monday 11 August 2008 11:54:21 Eric Krieger wrote:
> sudo dd bs=15M if=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror | ssh user@dest "gzip -9 > /path/to/image/linux.img.gz"

This will run a lot faster if you gzip it before sending it over the network, e.g.:

sudo dd bs=15M if=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror | gzip -9 | ssh user@dest "cat > /path/to/image/linux.img.gz"

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