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| author | Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de> | 2015-07-27 22:27:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de> | 2015-07-27 22:27:13 +0200 |
| commit | 729cc4d82d9597fdf56a81fc8a5bcd6228850fce (patch) | |
| tree | 2163255d42de9aa233ffe0ef3874e0ddc6a9cfd4 /docs | |
| parent | 60dfde2dc6236f30f312d2deb42dc94390221c06 (diff) | |
document how to backup raw disk
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diff --git a/docs/usage.rst b/docs/usage.rst index 46c56c9e0..f983ff662 100644 --- a/docs/usage.rst +++ b/docs/usage.rst @@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ Examples # Backup huge files with little chunk management overhead $ borg create --chunker-params 19,23,21,4095 /mnt/backup::VMs /srv/VMs + # Backup a raw device (must not be active/in use/mounted at that time) + $ dd if=/dev/sda bs=10M | borg create /mnt/backup::my-sda - + .. include:: usage/extract.rst.inc |