8 Sep
2009
8 Sep
'09
2:50 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 05:49, Dwight Schauer<dschauer@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear fellow Archers,
I tarred up a couple filesystems and piped the tar stream through ssh to a remote computer where I dd'ed it to a file. This a common backup method I've been using for a few years now if I'm going to wipe a system and start over.
Why did you need to use dd? Wouldn't cat be enough? Maybe dd has some limitation/bug? -- damjan