partition and copy in one line?

[Lars Noodén]

I had a hard drive die and used the chance to move to 4.2.  Since the
'new' machine is of the same vintage as the one it replaced, I expect it
to start grinding to a halt soon, too.

Is there a way to copy one entire hard drive, partition table and all,
to another -- in one line?

I tried something like this one but it seems to work only for specific
partitions:
        ssh target_address dd if=remotefile | dd of=localfile

I'd like to just steamroll over the previous partitions.

Regards,
-Lars