<div dir="ltr">The dd approach is problematic. One problem is, that half full partition might take as many space as a full partition.<div>This is a software written for this specific purpose. There's also a minimal linux system bootable disk with it.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page">http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page</a><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:54 PM, sammy ominsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s@avoidant.org" target="_blank">s@avoidant.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 30/12/2009, at 17:38, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:<br>
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> Does anyone knows a way (or an app) to backup a full Linux machine remotely<br>
> to another drive? I'm not talking file based backup, but partition based<br>
> backup (creating a "ghost" image). I need to do such a backup without<br>
> physically travelling to the hosting company.<br>
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</div>dd, tar and ssh.<br>
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--sambo<br>
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