Re: [opensuse] High-speed date transfer using a USB cable?

On 3/16/07, Paul Abrahams wrote:

On Friday 16 March 2007 6:59 pm, Sunny wrote:

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On 3/16/07, Paul Abrahams wrote:

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I want to copy the contents of a partition from a disk drive on one machine to a disk drive on another. Within a single computer I can do this using the dd command, but it isn't clear how to use that command for networked data transfers. I'm also wondering about doing the transfer using a USB cable, which probably has a far higher data rate and doesn't have problems with network traffic.

Since both machines are laptops, the strategy of physically moving one of the drives to the other machine temporarily isn't feasible.

The partition in question is a Windows NTFS partition, and I want the target partition to be bootable, as the source partition is. That probably precludes any strategy based on file-by-file transfers. However, the question is meaningful no matter what the partition type.

Any advice on either the hardware or software issues involved?

Paul

This is exactly what you need; http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/01/dd-over-netcat-for-cheap-ghost.html

That explains how to do it using the Ethernet, but how about using a USB cable? Is that (a) possible, and (b) faster?

Paul

It can be done: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/248/1 I did not read the article, nor price the special USB network cables they show. I'm pretty sure I've read that Linux can do this but it may only be a Windows trick. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org