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Netcat disc copy
Copy an entire partition
The client is a computer with ip 192.168.0.10.
The client (the computer on which the image is to be stored) must run the following as someuser:
nc -l -p 10000 > partition.bz2
The server (the computer on which the disc to be copied resides) must run the following as root:
dd if=/dev/hda1 | bzip2 -9 | nc -q 0 192.168.0.10 10000
Copy all files on a filesystem
The client is a computer with ip 192.168.0.10.
The client (the computer on which the image is to be stored) must run the following as someuser:
nc -l -p 10000 > files.tar.bz2
The server (the computer on which the disc to be copied resides) must run the following as root:
tar --preserve cvj . | nc -q 0 192.168.0.10 10000
Copy all files on a filesystem without compression
The client is a computer with ip 192.168.0.10.
The client (the computer on which the image is to be stored) must run the following as someuser:
nc -l -p 10000 > files.bz2
The server (the computer on which the disc to be copied resides) must run the following as root:
tar --preserve cv . | nc -q 0 192.168.0.10 10000