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I’ve witnessed somebody piping dd over an ssh tunnel to write blocks from one machine directly to another. Highly NOT recommended but still one of the neatest t
by deberon 5y ago
I’ve witnessed somebody piping dd over an ssh tunnel to write blocks from one machine directly to another. Highly NOT recommended but still one of the neatest things I’ve seen. It worked.
- drewzero1 5y agoSounds like a neat party trick! (At least, if you've got a really stable connection.) Did they do an md5sum afterward, or how did they know it worked?
- suifbwish 5y agoThat sort of thing can be used for making disk images. Restoring them would be the only way to verify them as checking the md5sum of the file is not possible without a reference backup and if you have a reference backup why would you be using dd through a pipe lol. Definitely a cool trick though.