[plug] Problem with software RAID

[Brad Campbell]

Tim Bowden wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am just helping out a friend with a broken ide software raid setup on
> a RH 9 box.  I would like to backup the hdd's as they are before I go
> playing with it. I can't tar -czvf /dev/hdc1 ./backup.tgz which is what
> I really want to do.  I can of course dd if=/dev/hdc1 but how do I get
> the output piped to a zip file?

dd if=/dev/hdc1 | gzip > output.file