29 Sep
2008
29 Sep
'08
4:22 p.m.
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 know that I can avoid this by simply doing
dd if=/dev/sda7 | ssh backupserver dd of=/backup/sda7.img
So its not a big deal - just curious.
System here is a fully updated CentOS 5.2 x86_64 if that matters
any thoughts?
Henry