Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?
No, it tries to talk to the rsync daemon by default, but you can run
it over ssh using:
rsync '-e ssh'
-Steve
On 24 February 2011 14:48, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 24, 2011 9:23 AM, "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@fizzback.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:32:43PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> > I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. For a reason
>> > that I'd rather not get into I cannot remove the drive from the
>> > laptop.
>> >
>> > Should I just use scp to copy over the LAN? Something like this?
>> > scp -r / root@178.63.65.136:/
>>
>> Well... SSH has some overhead because it does encryption - you simply
>> cannot
>> have encryption without _some_ overhead.
>>
>> I would recommend rsync instead - simply because if things go wrong during
>> the
>> copy, it can pick up from where it left, rather than restarting from
>> scratch:
>>
>> rsync -av --numeric-ids / root@otherhost:/
>>
>
> IIRC, current rsync uses ssh by default anyway. You have to disable it to
> avoid that overhead.
>
> However, rsync is the only option stated that allows resume. If you're using
> a boot cd, your only option might be to pipe in the data from another
> command because I seriously doubt you've got 40+ gigs of RAM on that laptop.
>
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