backing up a laptop

[William F. Day]

what about mounting a share (NFS or Samba) and making the tarbal on it?

Bill Day

Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586
  8:10pm  up 7 days, 19:24,  2 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00

----- Original Message -----
From: Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:34 PM
Subject: backing up a laptop


> Greetings,
> I've got a bit of a problem on my hands.  I've got a laptop with a 4GB
> drive, that currently has about 1.7GB free (less than half).  It has a
> CDROM(not a burner) & floppy drive.  Thus, the only way I can get files
> on or off the HD, is via the floppy or with scp (ssh).
>
> The HD is partitioned so that hda1 is /boot, hda2 is swap, and hda3 is /
>
> What I want to do is backup the entire disk, however since I don't have
> enough free space on the HD, i can't just create one big tarball.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to pipe the output from tar to scp so that i
> could automatically dump the tarball onto a remote box?  I've been
> pooring through the tar & scp man pages and can't find any way of doing
> this.
>
> If anyone has any alternate solutions, i'd be eager to hear them as well.
>
> thanks!
>
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