Re: How do I save a disk image of my laptop hard drive?

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Author: Mark Phillips
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To: plug-discuss
CC: George Toft
Subject: Re: How do I save a disk image of my laptop hard drive?
On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:51, George Toft wrote:
> Method 1:
> 1.  Boot a knoppix cd
> 2.  Open a root terminal window and issue this command:
> dd if=/dev/hda | ssh user@someremotehost "> /path/to/file/backup.img"


When I tried this, I was prompted for my password for user@someremotehost,
which I entered, and then just fell back to the root knoppix prompt.

Do I have to mount /dev/hda first? How do I do that?

Mark
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