The dd approach is problematic. One problem is, that half full partition might take as many space as a full partition. This is a software written for this specific purpose. There's also a minimal linux system bootable disk with it. http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:54 PM, sammy ominsky <s...@avoidant.org> wrote: > On 30/12/2009, at 17:38, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > Does anyone knows a way (or an app) to backup a full Linux machine > remotely > > to another drive? I'm not talking file based backup, but partition based > > backup (creating a "ghost" image). I need to do such a backup without > > physically travelling to the hosting company. > > dd, tar and ssh. > > --sambo > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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