On Feb 24, 2011 9:23 AM, "Karl E. Jorgensen" <k...@fizzback.net> wrote: > > Hi! > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:32:43PM +0200, Dotan Cohen 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:/ > > Well... SSH has some overhead because it does encryption - you simply cannot > have encryption without _some_ overhead. > > I would recommend rsync instead - simply because if things go wrong during the > copy, it can pick up from where it left, rather than restarting from scratch: > > rsync -av --numeric-ids / root@otherhost:/ >
IIRC, current rsync uses ssh by default anyway. You have to disable it to avoid that overhead. However, rsync is the only option stated that allows resume. If you're using a boot cd, your only option might be to pipe in the data from another command because I seriously doubt you've got 40+ gigs of RAM on that laptop.
