Rsyncing of block devices to a remote file

2003-01-23 Thread David Heremans
Title: Rsyncing of block devices to a remote file Hello, I'm looking for some assistance in modifying the rsync code Situation: I used to back-up some of my (unmounted NTFS) disk partitions remotely using the following shells construct: dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip | ssh me@backupmachine 'cat

Re: Rsyncing of block devices to a remote file

2003-01-23 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:17:04AM +0100, David Heremans wrote: Hello, I'm looking for some assistance in modifying the rsync code Situation: I used to back-up some of my (unmounted NTFS) disk partitions remotely using the following shells construct: dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip | ssh

Re: Rsyncing of block devices to a remote file

2003-01-23 Thread Dave Dykstra
I'm not sure why it would really need to know the size, but given that it wants it, can you open the file and lseek to the end of it? - Dave Dykstra On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:17:04AM +0100, David Heremans wrote: Hello, I'm looking for some assistance in modifying the rsync code