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You could replace ‘dd’ with ‘cat’ here, as in “ssh user@rsync.net "cat > d_dump"”. The ‘dd’ command has absolutely no reason to be used in the vast majority of

• sitkack 3y ago
  What is the computational difference between cat and dd?
  • teddyh 3y ago
    AFAIK, ‘dd’ reads and writes a block at a time (whatever the its default block size is), while ‘cat’ uses whatever buffer sizes it thinks is the most efficient for the devices it is using for that invocation.