full backup remotely?

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

2009/12/30 Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> Does anyone knows a way (or an app) to backup a full Linux machine remotely
> to another drive? I'm not talking file based backup, but partition based
> backup (creating a "ghost" image). I need to do such a backup without
> physically travelling to the hosting company.

Sounds like a job for dump+ssh+dd, something like (UNTESTED, UNCHECKED
in docs, etc.)

dump -0f - /dev/sda1 | bzip2 | ssh you at remote.machine.com dd
of=/path/to/backup.bz2

(definitely check options of dump - I am rusty).

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Oleg Goldshmidt | oleg at goldshmidt.org