[cs615asa] hw5 Question

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Sun Apr 7 22:04:51 EDT 2019


Rozy Gupta <rgupta11 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> If we do not create a file system then, how do we cross-check if the
> data is backed up or not?

You'd read data from the raw device.  If your program emulates this
pipeline:

tar cf - dir | ssh instance "dd of=/dev/whatever"

then restoring data would be similar to this command:

ssh instance "dd if=/dev/whatever" | tar xf -

Recall lecture 02/03; in our slides, we did simulate just this.

-Jan


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