No, it tries to talk to the rsync daemon by default, but you can run it over ssh using:
rsync '-e ssh' -Steve On 24 February 2011 14:48, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > -- 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/aanlktinmyf4453p9xpxz0b2one21orf9n+zxewmrl...@mail.gmail.com
