[plug] back up over network

[Ryan Smith]

hello

Im sure this has been asked before but I cant find it anywhere so Ill
ask it again. I want to back up my root partition on my server and store it as an image on my computer. the partition is only about 600MB and i cant store the image on my server cause its lacking in hard drive space.
So would something like this work?
dd if=/dev/hdd1 of=backup.iso bs=2k | scp ryan at tesla:

cheers
Ryan