[cs615asa] ec2 key name for hw6

[Jan Schaumann]

Avineshwar Singh <asingh16 at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> I am not sure about dd though. Do we need to tar and then send it to
> EC2 and write that tar using dd to some new volume

Yes, this is the correct approach.

You're basically wrapping the following command:

tar <options> <dir> | ssh <instance> "dd of=<volume>"

There is no use of tar(1) on the remote side.  tar(1) is only used to
create an archive of the data; the remote volume is treated as raw block
storage, much like a local magnetic tape or other raw disk device might.

-Jan