Remote backup to image with rsync

Posted on July 29, 2011 by brandon

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Create disk image file
```
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.image bs=1024 count=8388608
```
8388608 is the size of the filesystem we will want, in kiloBytes. This one will be 8GB.
Format to ext3
```
mkfs.ext3 -F -b 1024 disk.image 8388608
```

Mount

mount -t ext3 -o loop disk1.image /tmp/disk1

Sync the remote filesystem to the locally mounted image
```
rsync -avz user@host.com:/ .
```