harddisk backup with diskdump

[Aphex3K]

Hey Folks,

I want to do an backup of my complete /dev/hda and put it via network on another server. I figured out a strategy tha compresses the image and splits it into chunks of 700MB (Windows doesn't like files transfered to a share gt 2GB ). Now my question is, does this work? And does the restore work also? (/mnt/server/incoming is the directoy where the remote server share is mounted)

[Marctraider]

Ehm, doesnt dd require a 'of' parameter as well?

Perhaps you should just cat the drive (/dev/hda) and gzip it immediately, no need for dd i think

then split it, but i dont know if that command works, never used it.

and then for the other thing



cat the file | gunzip stuff

then unsplit

I have to try this as well, i have my own backupscript that tar's everything up, but i wonder if this hd catting and putting it in a big gzip will work better.
I dont think so, because there is still data everywhere on the disk that are not indexed files, hell, perhaps even traces from a former ntfs/fat32 partition...


I think i keep my self-made tar backup script its more efficient and when you extract it back to disk the files are al defragmented
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