backing up CF card (was: life of CF card)

Another thought:

If I install netatalk on the BSD machine, then access the BSD machine  
from my OS X machine, and then copy the CF card's entire file system  
by drag and drop into a folder on my OS X machine, would that work?   
What issues would keep it from working?

thanks,
isen

On Dec 19, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Thomas Isenbarger wrote:

> I don't have netcat, but I do have pax and tar.  I will go through  
> the doc, but I may have some questions down the road or ask for  
> advice about the best way to implement this.  I am also looking  
> into using dd for backing up the card.
>
> thanks,
> isen
>
>> On 12/19 08:17 , Thomas Isenbarger wrote:
>>> One thing that I have seen already is that it states one of the
>>> limitations is that it is not made to provide exact re-imaging of
>>> failed disks, though it says an exact image of a Unix/Linux file
>>> system may be able to be made.
>>>
>>> That is one thing I would like to be able to do for a failed CF
>>> card:  rewrite the backup to a new card.  Do you have any experience
>>> with that?
>>
>> yeah, I've done full bare-metal restores from backuppc many times.  
>> Never on
>> a small non-x86 box tho.
>> tar+netcat is what's needed on the client side (unless you have  
>> some other
>> transport mechanism... netcat is what I usually use). I don't know  
>> if the
>> netbsd installer has netcat (AFAIK it has pax instead of tar,  
>> which I think
>> will work).
>>
>> anyone know a simple way to get netcat on a 'rescue image' that  
>> runs in RAM
>> on an hpcmips machine?
>>
>> -- 
>> Carl Soderstrom
>> Systems Administrator
>> Real-Time Enterprises
>> www.real-time.com
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