[ale] SSH Downloading

[Christopher Fowler]

I'm dd'ing a FS now via ssh.


dd if=/dev/hda4 | bzip2 -c | ssh -t user at remote dd of=/tmp/fs.img.bz2

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:06:21PM -0400, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2003 13:50, Robert Coggins wrote:
> 
> > This is more what I was looking for also...  But I am glad to know about
> > the scp command too.  I did not know about that one.
> 
> This doesn't really fit your requirements but I usually leave cryptcat (the 
> encrypted cousin of netcat) listening on my machine. If you install 
> cryptcat on the remote machines you can use it to transfer files to your 
> machine and if need be, fire up a listener on the remote and copy files to 
> it. I prefer cryptcat to scp because you can do much more with it, like dd 
> a whole filesystem across the wire securely.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Rickman
> X Corps Security
> http://www.xcorps.net
> 
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