On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 05:49, Dwight Schauer<dscha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear fellow Archers, > > I tarred up a couple filesystems and piped the tar stream through ssh > to a remote computer where I dd'ed it to a file. This a common backup > method I've been using for a few years now if I'm going to wipe a > system and start over.
Why did you need to use dd? Wouldn't cat be enough? Maybe dd has some limitation/bug? -- damjan
