[plug] DD from inside an FTP session?

[Andrew Furey]

> > Can you just boot a live disk like Ubuntu Dapper or Knoppix?
> > Then just do it manually.
> >
> > e.g. % gzip -c /dev/hda | some-ftp-program -blah
>
> AFAIK gzip wont do bit by bit.

Can you do SSH to the remote server? Perhaps something like

# dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024k | ssh user at server "dd of=backup.dat"

And then compress it from there. Seems to work to the local machine here...

Andrew

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