29 Sep
2008
29 Sep
'08
4:27 p.m.
henry ritzlmayr wrote:
Hi list,
should it be possible to scp a partition with this command:
scp /dev/sda7 backupserver:/backup/sda7.img
/dev/sda7 is just a file, if you copy it it doesn't mean you'll copy the contents of the partition you'll just copy the block file itself, equivalent to running the mknod command on the other end.
You need to stream the contents of the file to get the data from it, like your dd example.
nate