Re: copy partition from a remote server

[Frederic Guillet <fguillet@gmail.com>]

Hi,

i want to run a daily back-up of an entire HD (160GO) remotely. 

Do you know any tool that can perform this on an incremental basis? 

cheers,  

fred


On Apr 9, 2005 12:29 AM, Tony Godshall <togo@of.net> wrote:
> According to Andrew Schulman,
> > > Hi List!
> > >
> > > The problem is the following:
> > >
> > > The remote machine (sarge) has a hdd with 5GB data.
> > > It's accessible via ssh over the web.
> > > I want to make a partition backup from it to a hdd in my office
> > > to be able to replace the remote hdd with the backup one if the remote
> > > hdd crashes (and no other installation is required).
> > > I know that dd can do it locally.
> > > But how to backup the hdd image remotely?
> > > Bandwith is no problem ( for me :) )
> >
> > scp remote:/dev/hdd hdd.img ?
> 
> Use rsync instead, if you can.  If sometime in the next
> several hours you have a network failure, just issue the
> rsync command again and it will pick up where it left off.
> 
> E.g...
> 
>   rsync -e 'ssh -C -c blowfish' -v user@remote:/dev/hddd hdd.img
> 
> or for newer versions, ssh is the default...
> 
>   rsync -vz user@remote:/dev/hddd hdd.img
> 
> 
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Frederic Guillet