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Old 05-14-2008
Stin Stin is offline
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Originally Posted by fabtagon View Post
Sure your rescue cd knows about -dc parameters to gzip? Is this maybe some busybox-like gzip?

BTW: If you boot that system backed up that way you'll likely face some complaints by the OS about existing looks it does not like - do not expect that image to work out of the box.

Hi there,

THanks for the swift reply.

I've changed:

# gzip -dc /NFS_MOUNT/backup.gz | dd of=/dev/hda

for

# gunzip /NFS_MOUNT/backup.gz | dd of=/dev/hda



And it seems to be working. I'll let you guys know.