netcat may help: dd if=/dev/sdX | nc -l 4321
On the other box: nc ip.of.the.serverbox 4321 | dd of=/dev/sdY On 2/24/11, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. For a reason > that I'd rather not get into I cannot remove the drive from the > laptop. > > Should I just use scp to copy over the LAN? Something like this? > scp -r / root@178.63.65.136:/ > > Can I actually use dd over the network, maybe by piping to scp > somehow? What is the canonical way of doing this? > Thanks! > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinxbxvhop-rbpwc0hyh_yq9wtkvvhaws72cy...@mail.gmail.com > > -- Sent from my mobile device Linuxer using Arch/Ubuntu, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net --> FB: http://www.facebook.com/boypt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinprxt-oqceb5ufqnk1_lmycprtb-ol2bhe7...@mail.gmail.com
