12 Sep
2003
12 Sep
'03
19:03
* Jim Norton (jrn@oregonhanggliding.com) [030912 11:23]:
#1 - How does backup an entire installation using dd? #2 - And is it possible to pipe the dd output to an ethernet connection to another Linux box so that 'backup' can be on a drive on another machine?
You could pipe the output to netcat which transfers it to the netcat running on remote. You could do something similar with ssh but depending on how fast the processors are you might be limiting the speed of the transfer. E.g., remote: netcat -l -p 10000 > backup-dd local: dd if=/dev/whatever | netcat remote 10000 You'll want to adjust the block size that dd reads. -- -ckm