[plug] DD from inside an FTP session?

[Michael Holland]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Senectus . wrote:
>
> > >Can you just boot a live disk like Ubuntu Dapper or Knoppix?
> > >Then just do it manually.
> > >
> > >e.g. % gzip -c /dev/hda | some-ftp-program -blah
> >
> > AFAIK gzip wont do bit by bit.
>
> It will.

What does "bit by bit" mean? Sorry, does not google.

A simple gzip won't be as efficient as g4u, but it will help.
I don't know of a good non-interactive ftp program, but if there isn't
one, you might gzip to a named pipe, and use ftp interactively.

Mike.