> > Hi, > > Can anyone here think of a way to back up remote partitions before > > installing Gentoo? Is there some way to run a command like dd but pipe > > the output it back to my local machine? What other info might I need > > to restore the remote machine later? I figure I'll save the partition > > information from fdisk. Anything else?
partimage has an option to backup a partition to a remote location. So you could run it on the remote computer sending the backed-up partition to your local machine. The online documentation for partimage is excellent: http://www.partimage.org/doc/ Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
