Am Montag, den 29.09.2008, 13:48 -0700 schrieb nate:
henry ritzlmayr wrote:
http://sammoffatt.com.au/knowledge-base-mainmenu/6-daily-linux/9-scp-and-ssh
Describes exactly this procedure - which looks like it works there.
hmm strange. I wouldn't expect it to work though I so rarely use scp anymore, rsync is better, and it behaves as I described.
In any case I believe copying directly from the device like that is a bad practice to get into, unless you always plan to have that volume unmounted. You risk considerable data corruption if any data is written to the device while you are reading from it.
nate
/dev/sda7 was just used to keep the example simple. I use this to copy lvm based xen Dom-Us from one system to the other - either for backup or for creating a test environment. I am fully aware that only unmounted, it will be consistent.
Henry