full backup remotely?

[sammy ominsky]

On 31/12/2009, at 00:27, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> doing the backup. dd is nice, but that will copy also the empty space
> (although it won't have impact on the size of the backup, it will have an
> impact on the time it takes). 

dd has a --sparse flag which makes it not copy empty space.

--sambo