From 729cc4d82d9597fdf56a81fc8a5bcd6228850fce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 22:27:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] document how to backup raw disk

---
 docs/usage.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/usage.rst b/docs/usage.rst
index 46c56c9e0..f983ff662 100644
--- a/docs/usage.rst
+++ b/docs/usage.rst
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ Examples
     # Backup huge files with little chunk management overhead
     $ borg create --chunker-params 19,23,21,4095 /mnt/backup::VMs /srv/VMs
 
+    # Backup a raw device (must not be active/in use/mounted at that time)
+    $ dd if=/dev/sda bs=10M | borg create /mnt/backup::my-sda -
+
 
 .. include:: usage/extract.rst.inc