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