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DD Backups over SSH

Execute the command (replace the IP address with the IP address of your target server):

dd if=/dev/hda | ssh username@127.0.0.1 "dd of=/directory_of_backups_on_ssh_server/backupfile.iso"

On Linux, to determine the device name for your source disk, use the following command:

sudo fdisk -l

On OpenSolaris or Solaris, to determine the device name for your source disk, use the following command:

pfexec format < /dev/null

This entry was posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 9:59 am and is filed under Linux, OpenSolaris, Solaris. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “DD Backups over SSH”

  1. Greg Faust says:
    08/01/2010 at 2:20 pm

    better yet:
    dd if=/dev/sda bs=64k | gzip -c9 | ssh username@127.0.0.1:/target_dir/filename.dd.gz

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