Am Montag, den 29.09.2008, 13:48 -0700 schrieb nate: > henry ritzlmayr wrote: > > http://sammoffatt.com.au/knowledge-base-mainmenu/6-daily-linux/9-scp-and-ssh > > > > Describes exactly this procedure - which looks like it works there. > > hmm strange. I wouldn't expect it to work though I so rarely > use scp anymore, rsync is better, and it behaves as I described. > > In any case I believe copying directly from the device like that is > a bad practice to get into, unless you always plan to have that > volume unmounted. You risk considerable data corruption if any > data is written to the device while you are reading from it. > > nate /dev/sda7 was just used to keep the example simple. I use this to copy lvm based xen Dom-Us from one system to the other - either for backup or for creating a test environment. I am fully aware that only unmounted, it will be consistent. Henry