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    What can I say, I didn't want to wait on my provider lol (lemmy.world)
    submitted 3 months ago by cm0002 to c/linuxmemes
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    It was also actually pretty fun!

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    [–] aMockTie 28 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    What happens if the SSH session closes before dd finishes? Sounds pretty badass but I don't think I would trust this approach in prod lol

    [–] cm0002 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Well the 1 SSH session bit was for dramatic meme-effect lol, you can actually connect back without issue (at least it did for me) so worst case if you weren't working in tmux you'd just have to start dd again

    Worst worst case, you'd just end up back where you were probably heading before anyways, KVM/IPMI

    [–] aMockTie 6 points 3 months ago

    Sure, I suppose as long as sshd is up and running in the ramdisk environment (which you mentioned in another comment, along with all other services) you could always reconnect. Very neat and clever!

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    You could use screen or tmux for a persistent terminal session.

    [–] aMockTie 11 points 3 months ago

    True, but I was more thinking about the issue of reconnecting in general when you just nuked sshd.

    [–] InnerScientist 2 points 3 months ago

    As long as you only copy off the disk, you can just reboot and the whole system in RAM vanishes and the normal system boots again for the second try.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Maybe run ssh on 2 different ports?