On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:41 +0200, Andreas Fredriksson wrote: > On 5/3/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before > > installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe
> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] '(cd /src && tar zcfp - .)' > backup.tar.gz > Does the "> backup.tar.gz" happen at the local side or the remote side? If I read the command correctly, 1. Connect to remote machine 2. Tar up the /src directory 3. Dump to the "LOCAL" machine as backup.tar.gz correct? Does it work? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:36:42 up 1 day, 3:06, 3 users, load average: 0.39, 0.76, 0.68 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
