Wonders of ‘dd’ and ‘netcat’ :: Cloning Operating Systems
Anytime we think about installing OS on more than one system ‘cloning’ comes to our attention. Because we are too lazy :-). Well that is one of the important characteristics of Systems Administrator so that he/she is forced to automate. In this document we will try to exploit the power of low level data transfer command popularly known as ‘dd’ and netcat. These programs are available for all major UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms. These commands are fairly popular among Forensics Analysis professionals.
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