* Nicholas Leippe [Mon,  9 May 2005 at 10:49 -0600]
> On Monday 09 May 2005 10:31 am, Daniel Timpson wrote:
> > dd with netcat
> > On the master machine containing the 60G drive I did the following:
> >
> >      master# dd if=/dev/hda | nc <slaveip> <slaveport>
> >
> > On the slave machine containing the 80G drive I did the following:
> >
> >      slave# nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/hda
> >
> > This method was the fastest(3.2 hours to restore) but the machine is
> > dog slow in both windows and Linux.
> 
> Fastest would be to just plop both drives in the same box and dd from hda to 
> hdc.
> 
> If that's not an option, your solution with dd+nc is how I'd probably do it.
> I don't see how a simple raw-copy of the data would result in a 'dog slow' 
> machine.  Something else must be awry on the target machine.

Make sure you put each drive on a seperate ide channel ;)

Von Fugal

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