Using Netcat

[Joseph L. Casale]

Hi, I am using netcat to help me send backups to and from machines with different operating systems.   I am using: To Backup... dd if=/dev/"Device" | gzip -9 | nc "Destination" "Port"      Assumes nc -l -p "Port" >"Image File Name" is running on Destination Host. To Restore... nc -l -p "Port" | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/"Device"      Assumes nc "Destination" "Port" <"Image File Name" is ran afterwards on Source Host.   Problem is, netcat doesn’t know when the data has stopped sending. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks so much! jlc