scp partition "not a regular file"

[henry ritzlmayr <centos@xxxxxx>]

Hi list, 

should it be possible to scp a partition with this command:

scp /dev/sda7 backupserver:/backup/sda7.img

I always get "not a regular file" - which is a clear and understandable
error, but my googling tells me that some people are doing this - and it
seems to work - at least at their systems.

I know that I can avoid this by simply doing

dd if=/dev/sda7 | ssh backupserver dd of=/backup/sda7.img

So its not a big deal - just curious. 

System here is a fully updated CentOS 5.2
x86_64 if that matters

any thoughts?

Henry 

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