[plug] backing up and restoring hard drive image

[Russell]

On 9/6/06, Jason <uq1 at hate-tank.net> wrote:
> good call.
>
> I know I can use split to create 30 files at 2gb each and then store them on the xbox

No need for split, use the skip argument to dd

  dd if=/dev/hda bs=1M count=2048 | ssh xbox [command to save file]
  dd if=/dev/hda bs=1M count=2048 skip=2048 | ssh xbox [command to save file 2]
etc