What is fastest way to backup a disk image over LAN?
- by David Balažic
Sometimes I boot sysrescd or a similar live linux on a PC to backup the hardrive over local network to my server. I noticed many times, that the transfer speed is not optimal (slower than HDD and network speed).
Any rules of thumb what to do and what to avoid?
What I typically do is something like:
dd bs=16M if=/dev/sda | nc ... # on client
nc…