From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 12 13:08:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA18027 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:08:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain-gateway.iafrica.com (MEtW1Is6l5q9oj0WeAXY/afr0liyxbKW@chain-gateway.iafrica.com [196.31.1.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA18018 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain-gateway.iafrica.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA04036; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:07:55 +0200 (SAT) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 22:07:54 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Bradley Dunn cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure remote backup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Bradley Dunn wrote: >Does anyone know of a secure remote backup solution for FreeBSD? By secure >I mean encryption of the data stream and strong host authentication (a la >SSH). How about something like tar -czf - /directory_that_you_want_to_tar | ssh dd of=/dev/nrst0 Of course, the user that you're doing it as (prob. root) must be in the other machines authorized_keys/shosts file, and the remote user must have write access to /dev/nrst0 We did this for a 3.2 gig drive, and it took a couple of hours (across a pretty quiet network). --- Khetan Gajjar | khetan@os.org.za www.freebsd.os.org.za/~khetan/ | khetan@iafrica.com PGP : finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za | I run FreeBSD - www.za.freebsd.org UUNET Internet Africa Support | 0800-030-002 & help@iafrica.com He hadn't a single redeeming vice. -- Oscar Wilde