Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 06:25 +0530 schrieb partha chowdhury:
henry ritzlmayr wrote:
Hi list,
should it be possible to scp a partition with this command:
scp /dev/sda7 backupserver:/backup/sda7.img
I always get "not a regular file" - which is a clear and understandable error, but my googling tells me that some people are doing this - and it seems to work - at least at their systems.
i think there are two simple ways to do this :
1> mount /dev/sda7 under say /mnt and scp -r /mnt <destination> 2> and rsync - i think it is most simple and suitable for backup through ssh.
If the content of /dev/sda7 is a filesystem I agree, but if its a raw device (databases, or xen DOM-Us), then this won´t work.
What I am trying to figure out is, why does this work on some (not mine) systems?
Henry