Hi, Thanks for your reply. My problem is i have soft links and databases i need to ensure get across. Whenever i use tar that doesn't always happen. I was thinking of dump/restore. My problem is i would then have to mount the remote server partition here and do the dump or mount a local partition here to the remote server, i am not sure if this is even possible or if it is if it's secure, i would definitely want this encrypted. Thanks. Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson [mailto:andrew@hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 3:13 PM To: dave.mehler@gmail.com; Blind sysadmins list Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] backing up a partition via the internet Hi, This machine that runs the list runs under a similar configuration. I just tar up the relevant directories and then send them across. There is also an NFS space they provide for such backups, which I could FTP off if I wanted to, but I just Rsync the whole thing to my server here. You could tar / if you wanted but probably easier to just backup what you wanted (you could backup /etc for example). Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: 24 July 2009 20:10 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] backing up a partition via the internet Hello, I've got a remote server, Linux, that i have to redo. My hosting provider makes the redo easy, as they have images you can select, operating system version and dependingo on what you pick is what you get. My problem is it'll kill my current data. I've got to back up the / partition from this server to a local server here, then redo the remote machine, then reload the data. Has anyone done partition backups over the net? Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins