[CentOS] ssh and dd

[Joseph L. Casale]

>dd over ssh should be a sure thing.  If you do a lot of image copies remote or 
>otherwise you might want to try clonezilla-live.  It knows enough about most 
>file systems to only copy the used blocks and can access the image store with 
>smb, nfs, or ssh.

Yeah not lots, just an esxi update...
I'll look into cpio now, its backing up as we speak.

Thanks guys!
jlc