[CentOS-virt] compress raw image
Ed Heron
Ed at Heron-ent.com
Thu Aug 4 13:38:12 EDT 2011
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 16:35 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to transfer a local raw image to another datacenter.
> Is there a way to achieve good compression of this image, I heard of
> tools overwriting unused space with zeros. Is this a good idea?
>
> It's an W2k8 image/NTFS.
>
> Thx
> Rainer
I'd use
dd if=<local dev> | bzip2 | ssh <remote user>@<remote server> "bunzip2 |
dd of=<remote dev>"
or something similar.
I'd then do
ssh <remote user>@<remote server> "md5sum <remote dev>" ; md5sum <local
dev>
to give myself some reassurance that they were the same.
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