[plug] backing up and restoring hard drive image

[Jason]

Ok, when I got home last night and went to try this, I realised I don't have a linux machine with a spare 60gb+ on it to store the image.

I do have a modified xbox with enough space on it running xbox media centre with it's inbuilt filezilla ftp server, and was wondering if I could use 
sftp instead of ssh?

I can see from the syntax you supplied below, ssh is running an interation of dd accepting the output to /path/to/file.dd, so I'm not too sure if an 
ftp server could do something similar ...

again, thanks for the assistance.

jason.

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.
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