Subj : power of dd
To   : Karel Kral
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Thu Oct 14 2021 12:38 pm

Hello Karel!

05 Oct 2021 08:04, Karel Kral wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 NR>>> If you use dd on a whole disk, your image will be that size. a dd
 NR>>> of /dev/sda1

 KK> Speaking of dd power - I used to have in the past script to migrate 
 KK> VPS (eh, ok, they gave VPS for one month for free and I wanted to save 
 KK> money) - I migrated VPS every 4 weeks.

hmmp :=)

 KK> Beside booting to rescue on both (and some fstab fix), main command 
 KK> was:

 KK> xfsdump -l0 - / | gzip -c | ssh root@new_ip "gunzip -c | xfsrestore - 
 KK> /"

 KK> Local network speed within one host was amazing ;-)

added to my gopher archive in origin


 Regards Benny

.... too late to die young :)

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