[plug] Problem with software RAID

[Tim Bowden]

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 21:57, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 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

Thanks Brad.  Just what I needed.  
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