Difference between revisions of "Dd - Destroyer of Disks"
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Start the receiving side first. This assumes machine 192.168.1.100: | Start the receiving side first. This assumes machine 192.168.1.100: | ||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
| − | nc -l -p > disk_image.gz | + | nc -l -p 2222 > disk_image.gz |
</pre> | </pre> | ||
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Then start sending: | Then start sending: | ||
Revision as of 11:41, 19 October 2007
Image a drive over a network with dd and nc
Start the receiving side first. This assumes machine 192.168.1.100:
nc -l -p 2222 > disk_image.gz
Then start sending:
dd bs=1M if=/dev/sda | gzip -c - | nc 192.168.1.100 2222
