On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:04:46PM +1000, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I am trying to do a complete backup of a drive in a brand new laptop > to eventually wipe and install linux. > > I'm trying to use the command: > tar -cjf - < `dd if=/dev/sda bs=512` | ssh otherhost.com 'cat > > /path/to/file.tar.bz2'
I don't understand what you're trying to achieve with that tar command. You've told bash to load your entire hard drive into memory, then open it as a file-name and pass it on standard input to a tar command that will read an empty list of files, form a tar archive from them, and pass the archive to standard output (except that tar won't create an empty archive by default, so it'll fail with an error). I think that what you want to do is "tar cjf / | ssh ...", but I'm a little thrown off by your desire to use dd. Are you trying to load a tar archive off a block device? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
