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

[Mark Phillips]

On Friday 06 April 2007 13:36, Dan Lund wrote:
> dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -9 -c | ssh userid at someremotehost ">
> /directory/file-name-to-be-stored.gz

I tried that, and it didn't work. I posted to the thread earlier, but the 
thread has become a little hard to follow.

I had to use

dd if=/dev/hda | ssh userid at someremotehost "dd of=file-name-to-be-stored.img"

Mark