On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:30:14 +0100 Paul Tansom paul@aptanet.com wrote:
That's an interesting thought that hadn't crossed my mind. I'll have to read up on it a bit, but that should take care of NTFS. Of course the problem with any of these is where to put the resultant image so it can be accessed and how to spool it straight there in the absence of local disk space.
$ssh -A root@livecomputer RSH=ssh /sbin/dump -0 -f backup@storageserver:/tmp/dumptest3 /home/mightyg
instead of using dump which is optimised for backup for ext2 and ext3 (possibly other UNIX file systems have similar or work with dump, must check), dd a particularly ancient UNIX application can read raw partitions to and from files. Since everything is a file in UNIX this allows you to backup any systems inefficiently as partitions using UNIX pipes, this includes the popular Microsoft offerings.
#ssh root@livecomputer /bin/dd if=/dev/hda1 | backup@storageserver /bin/dd of=/tmp/dumptest4
This is unfortunately inefficient in it does not do 3rd party transfer and all traffic flows through the instigator. Its also not very graphical.
better is to make a named pipe on the livecomputer and issue four commands but I am going to sleep now. So I wont test the commands.
Regards
Owen
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