[plug] back up over network

[Brad Campbell]

Ryan Smith wrote:
> 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:

dd if=/dev/hdd1 bs=2k | ssh ryan at tesla dd of=backup.iso

Regards,
Brad