Why can't I save/restore block devices?

[Arthur van Leeuwen]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Ph. Marek wrote:

> Hello everybody,

> I'd like to save/restore some partitions on my harddrive via rsync.
> (They happen to contain other os'es, so I can't safely mount the partitions 
> read/write).

Can you dd the partition (or parts of it) to a temporary store, and then
rsync that temporary image (of part of) the partition?

Doei, Arthur.

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