On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote: > On 07/23/2010 04:29 PM, Ross Walker wrote: >> >> How about remote cpio? > > cpio requires rsh/ssh to reach a remote system, and would be a poor > choice for copying an image to a block device. Better then dd over ssh, but clonezilla would be a better choice overall I think if it can read/write from a pipe, even better if it can resume from a broken pipe. -Ross