Cloning disk/partition over SSH

Copying an 10GB disk should only take at most 15 minutes with a god internet connection.
ssh server -c blowfish "dd if=/dev/hda0/snapshot"  |
dd of=/dev/hda0/target-disk bs=4096k conv=notrunc,noerror

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