[plug] Re: Backups

[Brad Campbell]

Steve Grasso wrote:
> As long as we're all sharing scripts (hi Brad!) I've used the following 
> method to do network backups of drive partitions using a combo of dd, gzip 
> and SSH:
> 
> 1. The partition to be backed up must be unmounted.
> 2. The following does the trick:
> dd if=/dev/partition_to_be_backed_up | gzip | \
> ssh user_name at backup.server dd of=name_of_backup_file.gz

I do a similar thing with nc every time I migrate to a new laptop.
Fire up tomsrtbt (or these days a self made little distro) and pipe the 
entire partition across nc, or more recently use tar and pipe the tar 
file across. Do the same thing in reverse on the new laptop, run 
grub-install and boom.. system migrated.

I did have problems using busybox tar for filesystems with deep dir 
structures as it used to run out of puff at about 100 chars.
For that particular instance I kept a staticaly linked copy of gnu tar 
handy.

Brad
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