[plug] backing up and restoring hard drive image

[Jason]

yeah, I'll use this method as it seems to be a great approach, thanks 
for your help Greg, it's really appreciated.

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:01:20PM +0800, Gregory Orange wrote:
> 
> Have you got hard drive space on a networked machine somewhere?
> 
> For dd images I just boot into a gentoo-minimal CD, and run this:
> 
> dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda | ssh -c blowfish user at server dd bs=1M 
> of=/path/to/file.dd
> 
> Using blowfish makes it run faster. Then in reverse onto the new drive:
> 
> ssh -c blowfish user at server dd bs=1M if=/path/to/file.dd | dd bs=1M 
> of=/dev/hda
> 
> 
> Greg.