Tips

Unstructured braindump

If CIFS does not follow symlinks correctly:

echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled

Backup:

dd bs=1M if=/dev/sda | gzip -c | split -b 2000m - /mnt/backup/backup.img.gz.

Restore:

cat /mnt/backup/backup.img.gz.* | gzip -dc | dd bs=1M of=/dev/sda