backing up a laptop

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William F. Day wrote:
> what about mounting a share (NFS or Samba) and making the tarbal on it?
> 
> Bill Day
> 
> Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586
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> ----- 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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