Re: [CentOS] ssh and dd

2010-07-27 Thread John Doe
From: Gordon Messmer > Well, no... If you're trying to do an *image*, you'll find that cpio > can't write an image out to a block device. > It's fairly easy to make dd as bandwidth efficient as clonezilla. Maybe have a look at ddrescue, which handles errors a little bit better than plain dd

Re: [CentOS] ssh and dd

2010-07-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/25/2010 03:26 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > Better then dd over ssh, Well, no... If you're trying to do an *image*, you'll find that cpio can't write an image out to a block device. It's fairly easy to make dd as bandwidth efficient as clonezilla. 1: Clear all of the unused blocks on the lo

Re: [CentOS] ssh and dd

2010-07-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/23/2010 04:29 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> >> How about remote cpio? > > cpio requires rsh/ssh to reach a remote system, and would be a poor > choice for copying an image to a block device. Better then dd over ssh, but clonezilla would

Re: [CentOS] ssh and dd

2010-07-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/23/2010 04:29 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > How about remote cpio? cpio requires rsh/ssh to reach a remote system, and would be a poor choice for copying an image to a block device. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

Re: [CentOS] ssh and dd

2010-07-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>dd over ssh should be a sure thing. If you do a lot of image copies remote or >otherwise you might want to try clonezilla-live. It knows enough about most >file systems to only copy the used blocks and can access the image store with >smb, nfs, or ssh. Yeah not lots, just an esxi update... I

Re: [CentOS] ssh and dd

2010-07-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Tonight I have to boot a diskless server with iLO and dd a remote image > available by ssh > onto a usb key. As there is no local place to store the image, whats the most > efficient > cmd to push the image from the remote server using ssh into the local pipe > pushing

Re: [CentOS] ssh and dd

2010-07-23 Thread Jim Wildman
YOu can ssh to it and mount an iso from a web server as well. On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jul 23, 2010, at 6:27 PM, "Joseph L. Casale" > wrote: > >> Tonight I have to boot a diskless server with iLO and dd a remote image >> available by ssh >> onto a usb key. As there is no lo

Re: [CentOS] ssh and dd

2010-07-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 23, 2010, at 6:27 PM, "Joseph L. Casale" wrote: > Tonight I have to boot a diskless server with iLO and dd a remote image > available by ssh > onto a usb key. As there is no local place to store the image, whats the most > efficient > cmd to push the image from the remote server using s