[lug] dd ssh pipe to bzip?

[Jeff Schroeder]

> The boxes I'm backing up are running on usb sticks.
> I want to keep the disk writes to a minimum.

Is it an urban myth that flash media will "wear out"?  I remember 
hearing back in the day that USB sticks have limited write cycles, but 
lately I've seen things that indicate those cycles are approximately 
the same as the number of cycles you get on a hard drive platter.  In 
other words, there's no longer any real difference between writes on 
USB and HDD.

In addition, the number of writes is some huge number per cell and it's 
unlikely you'd ever hit that unless you specifically had a program 
constantly writing to exactly the same location on the drive...

Any insight?

Jeff