Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-21 Thread FreeBSD
Odhiambo Washington a écrit : On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl mailto:rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Freebsd wrote: Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc is in /usr/bin how

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a PITA to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC). Would it have to be ssh? Why not just use netcat [nc(1)] if both machines are on your local network?

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a PITA to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC). Would it have to be ssh? Why not

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Clifton Royston
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: I'm having difficulties trying to clone a FreeBSD 7.1 PC to another exact same PC over SSH. There is my the things I tried: I found that link http://devpit.org/wiki/Dump_and_Restore_over_SSH which seemed exactly what I wanted. The

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:59:47PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Your answer is perfectly correct, but a couple of reasons makes me want to point up a tried true tool like rsync. It'll do what the man wants while using ssh to cover security, give really nice running feedback (if the user likes

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Freebsd wrote: Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc is in /usr/bin how will i not face the same problem as with ssh? Can you point me to a freebsd live cd that has nc included? The 7.0-RELEASE livefs CD that I had

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Freebsd
Le 09-01-19 à 12:46, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl a écrit : On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a PITA to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC). Would it have to be ssh? Why not

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Freebsd wrote: Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc is in /usr/bin how will i not face the same problem as with ssh? Can you point me to a

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Freebsd wrote: Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc is in /usr/bin