Hi Charles, I guess that will only work if you're connecting to the LEAF box with a *NIX box, yes?
I have PuTTY on my WinXP machine, I don't think I can do that command with it. Could I pipe the output of dd through gzip? Or is there anyway to directly read /dev/fd0u1680 with scp I have WinSCP? Thanks, James. -----Original Message----- From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2005 12:12 To: James Neave Cc: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Backing up LEAF disks over the network. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Erich Titl wrote: | Hi James | | James Neave wrote: |> Hi, |> |> Can anybody tell me how I could back up a LEAF disk over the network? |> I can get and put files to my LEAF boxes using SCP, but at the moment |> the only way to take a backup image is to put the disk in another |> machine and take an image backup. |> |> It's probably dd but I don't know how to set that up properly for the |> over sized disks I use (the standard 1640 disks) | | dd if=/dev/fd0u1680 of=/tmp/foo | scp router:/tmp/foo myarchive/foo.bin | rm /tmp/foo ...or bypass the temporary file creation (making a full sized disk image will press the RAM limits of many LEAF systems): ssh my.router.ip dd if=/dev/fd0u1680 >disk.img I personally use ssh keys (to aviod login prompts), rsync, and a script to keep weekly and monthly backups on a central server. I don't boot off the disks (I use a CD), so there's no boot-sector stuff for me to worry about. - -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC34MQLywbqEHdNFwRAvthAKDl++ON6b2r9vOpDdn5hOevDvifewCgwvbD kc0Z2wfVmDtqfbTzgIavoo0= =RJHe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. The contents of an attachment to this email may contain software viruses that could damage your own computer systems. Whilst The Spur Group of Companies has taken every precaution to minimise the risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage that you sustain as a result of software viruses. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
