[cs615asa] HW5: Question about dd method

[Jan Schaumann]

wzhang32 <wzhang32 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> 'via direct write to the volume as
>  a block device (utilizing tar(1) on the local host and dd(1) on the
>  remote instance), or via a (possibly incremental) filesystem sync (uti-
>  lizing rsync(1)).' (ec2-backup manual)
>
> Need we create filesystem  in the backup volume for dd method?

No.  Using that method will use the ESB volume as a raw block device.

-Jan