Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a 100G disk on an old redhat 7.3 system. > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 9.6G 2.4G 6.7G 27% / > /dev/hda3 99G 6.1G 88G 7% /home > hda2 is 2G swap > > I am trying to back that complete image up on my centos 5 system. > I can do the dd if=/dev/hda bs=1M | ssh root at machine 'cat > disk.img' > which gets me the whole 100G. tar czlf - / /home | ssh root at machine 'cat > disk.tar.gz' (-l so tar doesn't cross file systems and try to backup /proc)