[plug] DD from inside an FTP session?

[Bernd Felsche]

Michael Holland <myk at myk.id.au> writes:
>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.

You can easily wrestle up a Python program for non-interactive FTP.
Well, it's not user-interactive, which is what counts. The meta
protocol of FTP can be hidden inside a larger black box.
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