remote dump via ssh

[Ruben de Groot]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 03:41:51PM +0000, John typed:
> Hi folks
> 
> I want to level 0 dump a remote partition onto a large local disk. There's not
> enough space on the remote machine to dump to a file then sftp over. It needs
> to dump via ssh.
> 
> any ideas? lokking for an elegant one-line solution
 
dump 0aLf - /partition | ssh otherhost "dd of=/parh/to/dumpfile"

Ruben

> thanks!
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