Re: [tlug] Tip of the Day: "ghosting" a machine with nc and dd

[Nguyen Vu Hung <vu-hung@example.com>]

Attila Kinali ????????:
> Hint: use tar on a preformated partition instead of dd.
> The advantage is that you can deal with different sized
> partitions with different filesystems (as long as they
> support the unix semantics) and the amount of data
> transfered is only the data stored on disk instead of
> the size of the disk. 
>   
He is not only trying to backup so dd.
> Additionally, if you have considerably fast CPUs you can also
> pipe it trough gzip to limit the bandwidth used.
>   
Even if you have a faster CPU, gzip is still better than bzip2. gzip 
beats bzip2 in term
of resource hoging &> Josh.