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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:20:52 +0800
From:      francisv@dagupan.com
To:        wwlists@intraceptives.com.au
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Making remote dumps faster
Message-ID:  <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340E46@apmail.dagupan.com>

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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

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