[SATLUG] P2V conversions

[Victor]

What about something like this:

target machine: nc -l 1900 > image.img

backup machine: dd if=/dev/hda | nc 192.168.1.10 1900

Poor man's rcp, but highly effective.

On 9/12/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Jeremy Mann <jeremymann at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sean are you using the VMware player trick by using an empty disk
> > image file? I use the empty 20gb image file, boot Knoppix then rsync
> > everything over. If you need the link to the images I can send it.
>
> I use dd when I have a plain vanilla installation of Red Hat or CentOS
> on a scsi disk.  Rsync looks like a good solution for the servers with
> RAID.
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