I seem to have lost my cat. My mistake - sorry. Corrected command:
dd if=/dev/hda | ssh user@someremotehost "cat > /path/to/file/backup.img"
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760
Mark Phillips wrote:
> 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"
>
>
> The file backup.img is created on someremotehost, but it has zero length. The
> drive hda does not spin up on the laptop when I issue this command.
>
> dd if=/dev/hda | ssh mark@192.168.25.125 ">/home/mark/backup.img"
>
> I get the message after I enter my password - "Warning: no xauth data; using
> fake authentication data for X11 forwarding."
>
> However, if I do cfdisk /dev/hda from the same knoppix terminal window, the
> drive hda does spin up and cfdisk reports the correct partitions.
>
> What am I missing to get the drive copied?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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