Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

["Adrian Levi" <adrian.levi@gmail.com>]

2008/9/12 François Cerbelle <francois@cerbelle.net>:
>
> Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 14:04, Adrian Levi a écrit :
>> I am trying to do a complete backup of a drive in a brand new laptop
>> to eventually wipe and install linux.
>
> You dont have to use a temporary file. You can try the following :
> - NewLaptop : create partitions (ie hda1 for /boot and hda2 for /)
> - NewLaptop : create the filesystems on the partitions (mke2fs /dev/hda1 ;
> mke2fs /dev/hda3 )
> - NewLaptop : mount the filesystems on /mnt as they will be (mount
> /dev/hda2 /mnt; mkdir /mnt/boot ; mount /dev/hda1/ /mnt/boot)
> - NewLaptop : run the following command to copy all the files
> ssh root@OldPc "tar cjf - --exclude lost+found --exclude /proc --exclude
> /sys /" | (cd /mnt ; tar xvjf - ; mkdir proc sys)
> - NewLaptop : chroot in /mnt (chroot /mnt)
> - NewLaptop : mount /proc
> - NewLaptop : install GRUB or LILO on the MBR (grub-install /dev/hda;
> update-grub)
> - NewLaptop : umount /proc
> - NewLaptop : umount the filesystems (umount /mnt/boot; umount /mnt)
> - NewLaptop : reboot
>
> It SHOULD work
>
> PS: The transfert might be twice compressed : one time with the tar's "j"
> option and a second time by ssh

I should have mentioned that I want to make a backup of the drive with
its windows partition on it before I delete / repartition / install.

Adrian

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