Piping dd over SSH

Piping dd over an SSH connection

Picked this one up from the K12LTSP mailing list. You can pipe dd from one machine to another over SSH, like so:

dd if=/tmp/somefile |ssh root@target_machine dd of=/tmp/someotherfile

In the message, it was being used to transfer a whole partition from one machine to another thusly:

dd if=/dev/sda |ssh root@target_machine dd of=/dev/disk_name

12/13/2004