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Copy whole remote HDD-Image to local computer.
In some cases you need dump the whole image of an remote HDD, e.g. you migrate an server and would backup all data. The problem, you can't save the image on the server, because there is no space left. One option is copy the image to another server, but who has a server with enough space. Otherwiess …
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| ssh user@example.com 'dd if=/dev/sdX | gzip -c | gpg -r [userid] -e' | pv | cat > ~/image_sdaX.gz.gpg |
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