Backup of LPAR by booting into Suse installer DVD rescue mode

To take disk level image backup of LPAR to a remote location use:

We should have a backup destination with dd, nc installed. It can be a Linux machine (Physical or VM) or in case of Windows install Cygwin with ddrescue and nc also selected along with default packages.
Boot the LPAR via "System Management Service" so that we can go to rescue mode of CD. (Suse12SP4)
Use steps similar to "Activating the LPAR (Starting)" but instead of installation, we should go to rescue mode.
login with username root. It wont ask password

Configure IP addressing via Ip

ip addr add 192.168.50.242/24 dev eth0
ip link set eth0 up

In case of cygwin we can do following on destination
```
cd /cgdrive/e/
nc -l 9000 | dd of=suse-upgrade-12sp4-backup.raw
```
For linux refer Cloning disks or partitions using dd
On source we can use:
dd if=/dev/sda | nc 192.168.50.89 9000
If required we an monitor progress as explained at Cloning disks or partitions using dd

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