[ale] ALE puzzler (or, BusyBox rocks)

[James Sumners]

Uh, yeah. That's how I typically backup my Linux machines before
reloading them (new distro or whatnot). One helpful thing to do is
have tar print what file it is working on. That way you know when it
has stopped working so you can hit ctrl+\.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:43 AM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>   tar
>   netcat
>
>
>   tar cf - / | nc myServer myPort
>
> combined with the opposite on myServer
>
>   nc -l -p myPort > embeddedFS.tar
>
> gave me the FS image I wanted. Similarly with /dev/mem, except
> using dd instead of tar.  This was my first encounter with nc,
> and boy what a helpful thing it is!
>
>
> -- JK



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