November 2009
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Cloning disks over SSH
Lets say you want to migrate a disk or partition over ssh from one machine to the other, well, lets just do the following on the _target_ server.
ssh server1 -c blowfish "dd if=/dev/vg00/disksnapshot" | dd of=/dev/vg00/target-disk bs=1024k conv=notrunc,noerror
Some more good hints can also be found at, http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html
SMS Gateway with gnokii
Introduction to gnokii
So, gnokii, what is that? As the authors sees it its just a name of a project aimed to develop tools and drivers for Nokia mobile phones. Tools and drivers which enables you to use your connected phone from your Linux system. Its all kind of like the Nokia data suite, which is shipped with more advanced models from Nokia, you can send sms, edit contacts and so on, actullay...