Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

[shawn wilson]

Forgot to mention that netcat IS NOT secure. This is an idea to be expanded
upon not used verbatim.
On Feb 24, 2011 8:12 AM, "shawn wilson" <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't know you could separate dd like Steven suggested - that's pretty
> cool.
>
> I'll add two ideas:
> 1. I think cp can make a block copy, if I'm remembering correctly with
that,
> you might want to see if scp can do the same.
> 2. You could do
> ... of=/dev/tcp/ip/port
> (IIRC) on >2.4 kernels and get nc to catch and pipe the output. Don't know
> how you'd deal with simultaneous uploads there and check for the new
> connection to figure out where the start and stop of the dump was, but...