Wednesday, January 18, 2006
8:35 AM - DD over Netcat for a Cheap Ghost Alternative
Recently I have seen several people ask “How can I clone my hardrive over Ethernet†on several forums that I read. There are several commercial options, such as Nortons Ghost, but I prefer the much cheaper solution of using the GNU DD utility (part of the fileutils package) and redirecting the results through Netcat (the GNU version can be found here). While it is not exactly the fastest solution out there, it is a decent enough of a solution, and I typically am never in a situation where I need to clone quickly through a network.
