dd tool usage help

[mannam srinivas]

Hi Every one,

good evening....

i am using dd tool to copy data from one linux machine to another linux machine.

in place of output file i am giving the second Linux machine ip adress and directory wher i wanted to copy data.but dd command is not identifying the second Linux machine path .

i have mounted the second Linux machine from first one and its successful.

we can see the same below from mount command

172.16.110.1:/E on /media/usbsdisk type nfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,hard,udp,lock,intr,wsize=8 192,rsize=8192,addr=172.16.110.1)


i am using the following command.


dd if=/home/uce_ins/tmp/records of=172.16.110.1:/E

here 172.16.110.1 is the second Llinux machine ip asddress and the E is the directory i wanted to copy data from first Llinux machine.
but dd tool is recognized the the second linux machine

i have observed the foolowing error message
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dd if=/home/uce_ins/tmp/records of=172.16.110.1/E/
dd: opening `172.16.110.1/E/': No such file or directory


kindly give a suggestion how to copy data from one Linux machine to another linux machine using dd tool.it's very urgent.

with best: regards,
Srinu.

[nujinini]

Hello mannam srinivas!

Pardon me if I dare suggest but since you were able to mount the second HD, maybe there is no need to put the IP address on the output file but put instead of=/dev/hdxxx.

I'm just making a guess. Good luck!

[reed9]

Yes, if it's a mounted filesystem, you should use the path to the mount point, ie, /media/usbsdisk it looks like in your case, not the network address. I don't think dd is network aware.