Susemail wrote:
On Friday 07 October 2005 09:50, Ron Joffe wrote:
On Friday 07 October 2005 15:07, Anders Norrbring wrote:
I wonder if I in any way can use dd to copy from a local machine to a remote with scp?
The originating machine doesn't have support for any network file system at all, so I can't simply mount as usual..
I was thinking something in the way of
'dd if=thefile of=user@xx.xx.xx.xx'
I understand it's hardly as simple as that, so anyone out there with ideas? --
Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting Something like:
dd if=/dev/Volume1/root | gzip -9 - | ssh 10.246.248.148 cat - ">" root.dd.gz
you could also replace the cat with a dd of=...
Ron
I would like to understand this command. Does' /root' mean the root directory? Is 'root.dd.gz' a compressed form of '/root'? What's the 'dd' for?
I seem to recall you could also use ssh with tar, but I don't recall the command.