Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:36:02 +0000 (GMT) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: backing up configuration |
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Russell Berry wrote:
> In answer to your question, I would suggest something more like: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/net/someremote/host.image bs=16384 > > that will get absolutely everything on /dev/hda as a single image, > not as a file. naturally you could then run gzip host.image if > you choose to.
I suggest that if you want to compress the image, do it like:
dd if=/dev/hda bs=16384 |gzip >/net/someremote/host.image.gz
As you then won't write out the uncompressed image, restore with:
gzip -dc /net/someremote/host.image.gz |dd of=/dev/hda bs=16384
> > ---russ > Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( and I don't care ;) | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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