Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 06:25 +0530 schrieb partha chowdhury: > 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. If the content of /dev/sda7 is a filesystem I agree, but if its a raw device (databases, or xen DOM-Us), then this won´t work. What I am trying to figure out is, why does this work on some (not mine) systems? Henry