I'm looking for a way to write a file that's larger than my disk, directly to Google drive.
Use case: 64GB live bootable Arch Linux USB drive using dd or ddrescue to clone the 250GB disk of the machine I'm booting.
I haven't tried anything yet as I've only conceptualized this process.
I need dd to be able to write somewhere, and it seems most reasonable for that to be a fuse mount.
What are the thoughts on this sort of thing? How would you pull this off?
Very cool solution, I didn't know about that.
May not be suitable as the docs mention large transfers should be cached locally and use rclone move.
I'll give this a try when I get the chance.
Open to other ideas as well.
That will work, but if the transfer breaks half way you'll have to retry it from the start.
Quite a lot of people use tar .. | rclone rcat for a similar reason.
for what it is worth,
i create bare metal recovery images all the time.
i could not trust the combo dd+rcat.
i would purchase a larger usb key, have dd save to that and then rclone to gdrive.
or use an external usb hard drive for dd.
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