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Created January 11, 2013 10:36
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backup drive contents (dd) to samba share
# From http://www.joescat.com/backup/disk_image.html
mount -o username=name,password=secret //server/share backup
dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c | split -b 638m - backup/backup.img.gz.
# Restoration
cat backup/backup.img.gz.* | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/sda
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