netcat dd

At one point I had this on here but I can’t find it via search this morning so I’ll just go ahead and add it again.

Useful for cloning drive partitions when you don’t have the advantage of a SAN. ( taken from here )

• On Slave, run
  nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
  (note that it is important to start with Slave)
• On Master, run
  dd if=/dev/sda | nc 192.168.1.220 9000
• Go have a drink