Guspaz wrote:
When I want to image a disk, I just do something like this:
pv /dev/sda | nc 1.2.3.4 1234
And on the receiving end:
nc -l 1234 > /foo/bar/my.img
It's about as dead-simple as it can get. Keeping in mind that all the parameters I've given here are just samples, and a linode doesn't use /dev/sda but something else (was it /dev/xva or something?)
If you want to get a bit fancier, you can pipe it through gzip (or pigz to use multiple cores) on the sending end and optionally decompress on the receiving end.
This is the type thing I was looking for thanks a million.
I'll give it a whirl.