My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system via tar and ssh. I generally have to run rc on the desktop system periodically to make sure network-dependent services are still running as the desktop sometimes loses the wireless connection temporarily. When I ran rc this morning, I saw that ssh started so it must have stopped some time overnight as it usually does. The laptop was still running the tar | ssh command I had started the night before. Could the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop wasn't running ssh all night, or would it "catch up" now that ssh is running?
The laptop doesn't run sshd and X is not working so I can't make a comparison of the data on the two systems. - Grant On 1/25/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dd if=/dev/hda3 bs=<some_large_value> | bzip2 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > > /suitable/path/to/hda3.img.bz2" > > Or, if you can mount the partition, you can use tar: > > tar -cjvf - /mount/point/ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cd /some/path ; tar -xjvf -" > you could also use netcat to transfer the files instead of ssh, would probably be closer to the speen of the lan and have less CPU overhead Target: nc -l -p 5999 > hda3.img Source: dd if=/dev/hda3 | nc 192.168.your.ip 5999 if your hard drive is trashed like you say it is, you may want to use ddrescue ( sys-fs/ddrescue ) And make sure for the love of sanity the drive you are copying is _NOT_ currently mounted, at least not in write mode, or the image you produce could be crufted. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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