Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

[wimpunk <bkcfscpmcuin@spammotel.com>]

Tim Edwards wrote:
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > Yes, it is possible. I'd do something like this: use dd to read the
> > partition and output it to stdout, pipe that into netcat, which sends to
> > the other host. The other host has a listening netcat that passes the
> > read output to bzip2 or whatever.
>
> I think that exactly describes the functionality of partimage 
> http://www.partimage.org

And partimage has a boot iso which makes it pretty easy to use.