If it's possible for you to take down the machine, you could do a bare-bone network backup via dd and netcat:
Boot from knoppix cd set up network on the remote machine, enter nc -l -q 1 -p <some_port_no> > /path/to/backup_file on the local machine (assuming your disk is /dev/sda dd if=/dev/sda | nc <ip_of_remote> <port_no_as_above> You might want to put a gzip into the chain as well. If so, it's also a good idea to mount every partition before and doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/<yourpartition>/zero until it's full and removing the file. By that your empty space gets overwritten by zeroes which is a good thing(tm) for compression. Replay in reverse order. As this provides an exact copy of your device (incl. MBR, etc.), make sure the hardware does not change before replay. Hth Tilman -- Tilman Kastner DEVICE/N GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deisterstrasse 81 PGP key available 30449 Hannover, Germany _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
