Advice for dump/restore over SSH

[Freebsd]

Le 09-01-19 à 12:46, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> a écrit :

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote:
>> My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a  
>> PITA
>> to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC).
>
> Would it have to be ssh? Why not just use netcat [nc(1)] if both
> machines are on your local network?
>
> Try something like:
>
> <destination machine, booted e.g. from CD>
> newfs /dev/foo
> mount /dev/foo /mntroot
> cd /mntroot
> nc -l 65000| restore -rvf -
>
> <source machine>
> dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - / | nc <dest> 65000
>
> Roland
> --
>

Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc  
is in /usr/bin how will i not face the same problem as with ssh? Can  
you point me to a freebsd live cd that has nc included?

Thanks a lot for your help

Martin