[CentOS] scp partition "not a regular file"
partha chowdhury
kira.laucas at gmail.comTue Sep 30 00:55:45 UTC 2008
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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.
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