[nflug] nc multicast

[Cyber Source]

nope, it's just tar, if it's local it depends on the local stuff, if 
it's nfs or something, you could tweak it up with the rsize and wsize.

Eric Benoit wrote:
> and speed? do you specify a byte amount during transfer?
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
>> Mount your system somewhere with a knoppix cd or whatever, can even 
>> mount into memory space, cd into the mount point, where you'll be at 
>> / then, "tar czpf 
>> /othermountpoint-likeusbdrive-networkmount-whatever/filename.tar.gz 
>> ." That will create a gzipped tar of your entire system (gzip if you 
>> like to keep it small, etc.) Remember to think about different 
>> partitions, /boot, whatever, I like to keep it all on one partition, 
>> save the swap partition. People will argue this but if I ever want to 
>> break it out into partitions later, thats easy enough too.
>> Then take your system your going to do/redo and mount that into 
>> memory (like /mnt/disk) with a knoppix cd or whatever and then mount 
>> your filename.tar.gz somewhere else, like /mnt/orig. Then go into 
>> /mnt/disk and run "tar xzf /mnt/orig/filename.tar.gz". When that's 
>> done, unmount both and run grub like root (hd0,0) (whereever your 
>> /boot is) and setup (hd0)(to write to the mbr of the first drive), 
>> adjust accordingly to your needs.
>> Formatting, swap, and subsequent tweaks of /etc/fstab, 
>> /boot/grub/menu.lst and other tweaks are left up to the reader. but 
>> that's it in a nutshell.
>>
>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>> that sounds awesome can you give me an example?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>>> wow, I use tar and aside from network latency, it generally takes 
>>>> about 5 min for 5gb, depending on processor speed. I've gotten away 
>>>> from using networks entirely but that's my situation here. I use a 
>>>> usb drive to transfer my new "dumps" to a system and usually boot 
>>>> the thing with either a knoppix cd or usb stick. I even keep a copy 
>>>> of an updated archives folder for apt, that I transfer into the new 
>>>> system, this way it doesn't need to download all the packages again 
>>>> (or since I made the dump), tweak a few UUID's and other settings, 
>>>> and all good. I've installed entire systems this way in less than 
>>>> 15min sometimes, all verbatim of the way I like our systems 
>>>> tweaked, ready to ship out.
>>>>
>>>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>>>> about 45 min
>>>>>
>>>>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>>>>> video streaming??!!
>>>>>> I was asking about some sort of benchmark. You said you want to 
>>>>>> "speed things up" so, I asked for a benchmark, how much data are 
>>>>>> your transferring for how much time? If one system is 16gb and 
>>>>>> you image it to another via your network, how long is that taking?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>>>>>> I'll tell you what I do but what are the times were talking 
>>>>>>> about? How much time for how much data?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not video streaming?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm just kind of ghosting 16 gb accross a 100mbs connection to 
>>>>>>> about 5 machines at a time
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>>>>>>> that still didnt answer my question Eric
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>>>>>>>> sorry, I meant speed things up by imaging more than one 
>>>>>>>>> computer at a time
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I'll tell you what I do but what are the times were talking 
>>>>>>>>>> about? How much time for how much data?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> zcat ./my.img.gz | nc 192.168.10.10 9000
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm using the setup above to image hard drives ...one 
>>>>>>>>>>> computer at a time ...works great, but I want to speed 
>>>>>>>>>>> things up...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> does this look right:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> source(192.168.10.10) image command:
>>>>>>>>>>> zcat ./my.img.gz | nc -b -p 9000
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> destination command:
>>>>>>>>>>> nc -l -n 192.168.10.10 -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> and another destination command:
>>>>>>>>>>> nc -l -n 192.168.10.10 -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> and another destination command:
>>>>>>>>>>> nc -l -n 192.168.10.10 -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
>>>>>>>>>>>
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