Ghosting with Linux

[Brian Kelsay]

Jason Clinton wrote:

> 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.
> 
So now are you going to script this to a file like "backup_hda1_now"?
How about putting the restore script on in a file on a bootable Linux 
floppy or CD?  There is your restore solution.

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