I need to obtain an OS image (for recovery purposes). The Primary is as below:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 65 956 7164990 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 957 1593 5116702+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1594 4427 22764105 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1594 1848 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1849 2103 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2104 2167 514048+ 83 Linux

/var is on another disk as below:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1275 10241406 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb2 1276 1912 5116702+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 1913 2167 2048287+ 83 Linux

/dev/sdb3 on /var type ext3 (rw) <---mounted


This is the command I have been using on other servers ("of" is a mounted NFS disk:

dd if=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /mnt/server/server.img.gz

Is there a way to structure the "dd" command using two sources? If not, then how can I get the full copy from sda and the partition from sdb in one image?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Connie

I never like using the noerror option.

To do two tasks, you have to generally finish one then copy the next in some script.

Clonezilla, partimage or such may allow this task.

If you want you can try g4u. It is basically what you have there except it uses ftp account to store info. Still have to do one at a time.