Run it uncompressed first and then compress it after you have acquired the image - if you so desire.<br><br>In general, imaging is slow. Maximum you will get about 4GB/s with hardware dedicated for the task. That's drive to drive using a SATA connection. Real world numbers are about 5 hours to image a 500GB drive.<br>
<br>Over a network, it's going to take a much longer time. First, as I said before - don't do compression on the fly - do it post capture if you want. Second, what is your network speed? Are you at 100 or 1000 Mb/s? Third, what is your capture device? A single drive, a raid array, something else? How fast is the capture device? Fourth, check your system logs. Is your device giving any errors? How about your network interface - is that giving errors?<br>
<br> Brad<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Eric Benoit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@bootz.us">eric@bootz.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
*I'm trying to image a ssd drive across the network to my hard drive, I used the directions below and everything is working fine, however it is slow as time next to a blackhole ;)<br>
<br>
does anyone know a way I could speed things up a bit or byte?<br>
<br>
<br>
based on the following instructions:<br>
*<br>
<br>
This method uses dd and nc provided by the Debian Installer and another computer located on your local network:<br>
<br>
* First, boot the debian installer on your USB disk<br>
* Then be sure to activate network and configure it, same thing for<br>
the disk (Do not partition it)<br>
* Open a console shell (Alt+F2 or from the Debian Installer menu)<br>
* On the backup computer:<br>
o get its IP adress (ifconfig)<br>
o start a listening nc session on port 9000:<br>
<br>
nc -l -p 9000 | gzip -1 -c > ./eeepc.img.gz<br>
<br>
* With netcat-openbsd installed this line should read<br>
<br>
nc -l 9000 | gzip -1 -c > ./eeepc.img.gz<br>
<br>
* On the EeePC shell:<br>
<br>
dd if=/dev/sda | nc -w 5 computer_ip_adress 9000<br>
<br>
Wait some minutes (about 35)... and you get a eeepc.img.gz with about 900Mb<br>
<br>
from the website:<br>
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5hozkf" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/5hozkf</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
Eric<br>
*<br>
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