* 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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