Re: [Xen-users] dd trough scp with tar

["Florian Heigl" <florian.heigl@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

2008/4/25, David Hláčik <david@xxxxxxxxx>:

> i will inside virtual machine on ESX boot from Live-CD of CentOS , using dd
> i will transfer images trought scp to CentOs machine with xen. I believe
> this one should work, machines on ESX are Windows2003 Servers.
> So what i need to find is how to write a command which will transfer image
> trought scp , but for faster transfer also compress  it before using tar, or
> gzip.
>
> so my input will be dd if=/dev/sda1 , my output will be gzipped or tarred
> image on second side. sda1.img.gz

There's also some tools (ntfsclone for one ntfs-aware tool) or g4u for
a more centralized whole-disk-image approach that might do the same.

also you might be able to extract the Raw VMDK's data on your ESX host
using VMWare cli utils and compress/scp that. I know this works with
the normal VMWare server and would assume ESX also has some utility to
ease that.



good luck :)
florian


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