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]]> By: K.Gunasekar http://www.alexonlinux.com/backup-and-restore-your-linux-installation/comment-page-1#comment-29451 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:13:44 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1048#comment-29451 I really enjoyed to read this article. I hope it will help several people including me. Great………..

]]> By: Faulteh http://www.alexonlinux.com/backup-and-restore-your-linux-installation/comment-page-1#comment-22611 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:39:26 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1048#comment-22611 I’ve been doing something similar to this for a while, but over the network to a large fileserver. To backup:

dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=1k | ssh user@backupserver ‘bzip2 -c >hostname.sda1.ddimg.bz2’

and restore:
bzip2 -c -d hostname.sda1.ddimg.bz2 | ssh user@targetip ‘dd of=/dev/sda1’

The value of bs=1k or 1200 means it will fill up a TCP packet with more data so less network overhead.

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