From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 25 8:20:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from backup.dagupan.com (www.psysc.org.ph [206.101.69.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401E037B480 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by apmail.dagupan.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:20:54 +0800 Message-ID: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340E46@apmail.dagupan.com> From: francisv@dagupan.com To: wwlists@intraceptives.com.au Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Making remote dumps faster Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:20:52 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain 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 Thanks for the tip Warren. -----Original Message----- From: Warren Welch [mailto:wwlists@intraceptives.com.au] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:53 PM To: francisv@dagupan.com; freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making remote dumps faster 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