On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Wilko Bulte:
> > Guessing: superblock?
>
> Yes.
>
> Our dump is only able to backup complete filesystems. Historically, SunOS' one
> is able to backup partial FS (i.e. directories) and ironically, when R�my Card
> (of ext2fs fame) ported it to Linux, he added back that functionality.
Short of that, this should work, shouldn't it?
ssh user@host tar cvf - <dir> | gzip -c > myarchive.tgz
If not, then pipe it to dd first, then gzip it.
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