hmmmmmmm.... that didn't work. it copied 3% of the device and then: can't write to the archive file. space on device is 0 bytes. I ran out of room..... so it isn't piping the output to the laptop. what am I doing wrong? I really want to use fs archiver because it copies the device and not what it is mounted to. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > Okay..... I got the system back up so now it is time to play!~ By play I > mean to backup that other computer using fsarchiver. > So this is the command I think I should issue: > > fsarchiver -v -z9 -s700 savefs 2012-2-21 /dev/sda1 | ssh > root@192.168.0.4 /mnt/entertainment/clones/IBM/2012-2-21 > > in my eyes what this will do is use fsarchiver to save the contents of > /dev/sda1 at a 'z'ip level of 9 (the maximum lzma compression) 's'plit > into 700 MB chunks (if I ever need to save it to CDs) and then send those > results to the directory 2012-2-21 of a laptop. Will that work (in theory)? > > well, when I press enter the machine tells me that 2012-2-21 is a > directory then starts its thing. My issue is that a new file doesn't appear > in /mnt/entertainment/clones/IBM/2012-2-21 like it would with tar. Is that > a problem? Does anyone know? > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: