partimage is another efficient tool that I have used for cloning disks, it skips blocks that the filesystem thinks are free / not in use, supports a network mode, but the filesystem can't be in use, although it could be read-only. If you use xfs, you could use xfs_freeze to freeze the filesystem before running partimage, then unfreeze when you are done.
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page I have only used the dialog GUI, but it does have a pure CLI. The simplest thing would probably be to just save the image on the remote end, not sure how you would restore the image on the fly at the receiving end, but it may be possible. Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
