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

But is doesn't offload the gzip compression to another box (i.e. your
local system will be pretty busy until the image process is complete). 

 =)

Eric

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:46 -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> 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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