Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Tonight I have to boot a diskless server with iLO and dd a remote image available by ssh
> onto a usb key. As there is no local place to store the image, whats the most efficient
> cmd to push the image from the remote server using ssh into the local pipe pushing out
> to `dd of=/dev/sdx`?
>
> Would a remote execution of `dd if=/dev/sdx` be the best over ssh? I suppose I could use
> nc and do away with ssh, is that in the CentOS rescue mode?
>
dd over ssh should be a sure thing. If you do a lot of image copies remote or
otherwise you might want to try clonezilla-live. It knows enough about most
file systems to only copy the used blocks and can access the image store with
smb, nfs, or ssh.
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Les Mikesell
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