Using DD

• Wonders of DD and Netcat
  • Extensive page about dd/netcat use and creating custom ISO with nc from RedHat CD
  • slave% nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
  • master% dd if=/dev/sda | nc $SLAVE_IP 9000

from O’reilly Networking hack #355 Contributed by: Merritt Krakowitzer

• next bootup the machine you are going to clone, login as root and type the following
  • #dd if=/dev/hda bs=10k | ssh $TARGET_IPADDRESS dd of=/dev/hda bs=10k
• Wait a couple of hours and your done.
• Note: The drive geometry needs to be exactly the same. There are probably better ways to do this.