backing up a laptop

[Net Llama!]

Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:34:15 -0700 Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
>>
> 
> 
> You didn't mention if it was lan ready... If so, just copy the lot over to

Yes, it does have a 10/100 PCMCIA NIC.

> the server and then to your backup medium of choice... Otherwise, if it
> has a parallel port, score yourself a parallel lap-link style cable and
> transfer it all via PLIP... it'll be slow as hell, but you'll end up with
> a backup anyways... But ethernet is so much better... :')

D`oh!  Why didn't i think of this?
<me so stupid>

thanks!



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