I don't have netcat, but I do have pax and tar.  I will go through  
the doc, but I may have some questions down the road or ask for  
advice about the best way to implement this.  I am also looking into  
using dd for backing up the card.

thanks,
isen

> On 12/19 08:17 , Thomas Isenbarger wrote:
>> One thing that I have seen already is that it states one of the
>> limitations is that it is not made to provide exact re-imaging of
>> failed disks, though it says an exact image of a Unix/Linux file
>> system may be able to be made.
>>
>> That is one thing I would like to be able to do for a failed CF
>> card:  rewrite the backup to a new card.  Do you have any experience
>> with that?
>
> yeah, I've done full bare-metal restores from backuppc many times.  
> Never on
> a small non-x86 box tho.
> tar+netcat is what's needed on the client side (unless you have  
> some other
> transport mechanism... netcat is what I usually use). I don't know  
> if the
> netbsd installer has netcat (AFAIK it has pax instead of tar, which  
> I think
> will work).
>
> anyone know a simple way to get netcat on a 'rescue image' that  
> runs in RAM
> on an hpcmips machine?
>
> -- 
> Carl Soderstrom
> Systems Administrator
> Real-Time Enterprises
> www.real-time.com