From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 25 7:51: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from arthur.intraceptives.com.au (arthur.intraceptives.com.au [203.22.72.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 437B837B402 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30884 invoked by uid 20006); 25 Jan 2002 15:51:04 -0000 Received: from wwlists@intraceptives.com.au by arthur.intraceptives.com.au with qmail-scanner-1.01 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4183. . Clean. Processed in 1.897289 secs); 25 Jan 2002 15:51:04 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: wwlists@intraceptives.com.au via arthur.intraceptives.com.au X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.01 (Clean. Processed in 1.897289 secs) Received: from wks-pc1.intraceptives.com.au (HELO athelon.intraceptives.com.au) (203.22.72.32) by arthur.intraceptives.com.au with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 15:51:02 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020126024905.04721008@arthur.intraceptives.com.au> X-Sender: wwlists@arthur.intraceptives.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:52:36 +1100 To: francisv@dagupan.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Warren Welch Subject: Re: Making remote dumps faster In-Reply-To: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340E45@apmail.dagupan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:56 PM 25/01/2002 +0800, francisv@dagupan.com wrote: >Hi, > >Is there any other way to make remote dumps faster? I'm doing the dump on a >10mbps LAN using: > > /sbin/dump -0uaf - /usr | ssh -2 -c blowfish remote.host.com \ > 'dd of=/dev/nrsa0' Yeah, check out /usr/ports/misc/buffer (buffer)... I do something like this regularly:- dump -0uaf - /usr |ssh -c blowfish -l backup remote.host.com buffer -o /dev/nrsa0 Works like a charm, and speeds things up a litte... Warren =========================================================== Warren Welch Intraceptives Pty Ltd Network Engineer wwelch@intraceptives.com.au Mob: 04-14-330-336 Tel: +61-4-14-330-336 Fax: +61-2-9533-8407 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message