Ghosting with Linux

[Jason Clinton]

   Jason Clinton wrote:

   Some corrections to my own musing that I've discovered thus far:
# dd bs=1024 if=/dev/hda1 | bzip2 --best | ssh -2 -l [user]
[ipaddress] "cat - > /var/server-backup.bz2"
  

   tar is unnecessary because there are no directories. It would be best
   to compress it before it goes over the network. cat is taking stdin to
   stdout and bash is dumping stdout to a file. Is this any closer?

   Hehe. I figured it out. I compressed and sent my 100 MB /boot
   partition down to 4.1 MB successfully. Here is what I did. Thanks for
   listening to me talk to myself. :)
# dd bs=900K if=/dev/hda1 | bzip2 --best | ssh -2 -l root 134.193.43.211
 "dd of=/var/server-backup.bz2"

To restore the backup:

# ssh -2 -l root 134.193.43.211 "bunzip2 /var/server-backup.bz2" |
 dd bs=900K of=/dev/hda1

   I'll let everyone know how the 10 GB NTFS partition with 7 GB of data
   on it compresses down to and how long it took to make a backup accross
   a 100 Mbit connection.